Although I’ll have to work for it. I finally found information about volunteering at the Maryland Wine Festival next month, which again, I highly recommend (my tendency to say yes to volunteer gigs between the Potomac and the Mason-Dixon aside). While I’m not always a big people person, the chance to interact with people who [...]
Guest post written by my wife Elyse Three cheers and a pop of the cork for Cygnus winemaker Ray Brasfield, whose Royele Rose’ de Noir Brut Rose was featured at last Thursday’s Governor’s Buy Local Cookout, according to an article in the Baltimore Sun. Maryland has a number of vintages grown between the Potomac and [...]
About a month ago, I had the distinct pleasure to attend a preview event for what promises to be the next big thing (pun intended) on the Maryland wine scene: Washington County’s Big Cork Vineyards, a collaboration between the Thompson family (of Thompson Gas fame) and Virginia wine all-star Dave Collins (formerly of Breaux Vineyards). [...]
The third and final day and I faced another grueling 6-7 hour drive back home. But just so I’d have EVEN MORE wineries to write about for you, dear readers, I found three that made sense as stops on the way back north. And good thing, too, because one of them was super worth it: [...]
Day 2. Following breakfast at the Fairfield Inn we found the night before, it was time to hit the road for our only full day in the area. I managed to get through seven wineries and stay on my feet and, while it’s important to note here that you don’t need to finish each and [...]
6:45 a.m. – time to hit the road for a little North Carolina road trip. It was the Thursday before Easter (spring break), which meant somewhat better traffic around the beltway as office workers like me started the weekend a couple days early. After a brief stop for lunch at Chik-fil-A somewhere near Greensboro, we [...]
Okay, so you’ve decided to branch out a little from your usual MD/VA/PA winery circuit (don’t even try telling me you’re drinking that Delaware wine). Where to next? Let’s pull out the map and take a look. To the north, you’ve got New York with the well-known wineries of the finger lakes region or even [...]
Greetings Vinotrip readers! I return to you after spending a long weekend in North Carolina’s wine country, the Yadkin River Valley. Never heard of it? Neither had I. However, if you use Google to map out wineries in North Carolina and you notice the relatively dense cluster of hits out in the northwestern part of [...]
Have you seen the new marylandwine.com? The Maryland Wine Association announced the bold redesign of their flagship site earlier this week. It now integrates the fancy new Maryland Wine Passport system, encouraging you to collect unique codes from wineries across the state, enter those codes on your online profile, and receive rewards for visiting Maryland [...]
Guest post this week by Jon from Manfred Macx Rather than fisticuffs at the local Best Buy, the family and I instead opted to spend Black Friday at a few Maryland wineries. Our launching point was a beautiful rental house on the beach in Scotland. Along for the ride were my wife, our two daughters, [...]
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