Despite the 100+ temperatures, I trekked from Columbia to Carroll County to bring you this report from the newly-inaugurated Carroll Wine Trail, which officially opened on July 7. All three wineries in the trail – Cygnus, Galloping Goose, and Serpent Ridge – are relatively new on the scene but are doing great things. More importantly, [...]
Chances are you’ve heard that wine grows well around Napa and Sonoma in northern California. You might even be familiar with the vineyards in central-southern California around San Luis Obispo north of L.A. But unless you’ve been there yourself, chances are you’ve never heard of the foothills wine country east of Sacramento, aptly named for [...]
Finally got out to Oregon’s Willamette Valley to do some wine tastin’, picture takin’, and relaxin’. The first thing I noticed while driving from winery to winery is all the dysentery is how they have other stuff planted besides grapes. Drive through any major wine region around the world and you’re likely to find every [...]
Lost in all the crying in my Merlot over wine shipping has been the progress of another wine bill casually making its way through the Maryland House this spring. The Maryland Winery Modernization Act (HB-921) is the major legislative effort from the Maryland Wineries Association. Running a winery includes a lot more than just making [...]
No sooner did I formally break ties with Virginia than I found myself in the Shenandoah Valley tasting some of the wines that Virginia wineries have to offer. Wisteria Farm & Vineyard is a small operation where our tasting room pourer was also the owner and winemaker. That’s the kind of operation I like. I [...]
Attempting to set the record for most winery visits in one month, the Bloggers at Swirl Sip Snark have been blasting out a ton of posts on Virginia Wineries over the past few weeks. The writers over there are pretty blunt, so you know you’ll be getting an un-abashed review of the ins and outs [...]
Your regular blogger has let me pop in again and share a little Maryland wine tour. If there’s one thing Maryland wineries can learn from Virginia, it’s signage. The very first sign we saw for Black Ankle Vineyards was the one directing us to turn left into the driveway. Virginia, on the other hand, has [...]
Murphy-Goode, a winery located in Sonoma’s Alexander Valley, was faced with a problem that lots of small businesses grapple with: how to get on the social media train that so many people are yammering about. They did the smart thing and set out to hire someone who is plugged into this sort of thing. So [...]
Went on a quick ride out to Frederick and Carroll Counties to visit two wineries this past weekend. First was Elk Run Vineyards, a rustic winery about 15 miles east of Frederick, Maryland. Elk Run was founded over twenty-five years ago making them ancient in terms of Maryland vineyards. All the fruit for the flagship [...]
Feeling really disappointed about this right now, but I don’t know why. Early on, I felt that this thing had no chance. There was a bigger groundswell this year though led by the blogs, the twits, and the MWBBL. Through letter writing and showing up to hearings, people did a great job of letting the [...]
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