The Best & Worst of Virginia Wine

The first time we encountered wine from White Fences Vineyard was at the Taste of Culpeper a few years ago.  We’re not big festival people as neither of us like crowds – particularly drunk crowds, so we hadn’t encountered their wines again since then since we’d yet to make it out to the Northern Neck [...]

This is not a century club post since we’re trying to stick with single-grape wines for a while on our quest to taste 100 grapes, but Grape Envy Guy was in a bit of an adventurous mood, so we tried something a bit unusual.  Our default reds tend to use Bordeaux grapes or chambourcin, but [...]

As you might guess from the hashtag in the post title, we recently participated in the sauv blanc twitter tasting organized by Rick Bakas.  (By “we participated” I mean that we drank wine and I tweeted since Grape Envy Guy has handed over the twitter account to me. )  It was our first [...]

Regular readers know that we’re big fans of Jim Law and Linden Vineyards.  While we’ve enjoyed every Linden wine we’ve ever had, we’re huge fans of the Hardscrabble chardonnay (‘07).  We enjoy a lot of different wines depending on our mood, our food, etc., but this is one I consistently think of as my favorite [...]

Did you see John Hagarty’s most recent blog post / newspaper column? Apparently we’re not the only ones irked by the short-sighted, moronic, reptilian-brained thought processes of the Fauquier County Board of Stupervisors. If you haven’t read it yet, be sure you do. He not only disassembles the proposed winery neutering ordinance quite well, he [...]

Some family was in town recently, and we wanted to show off some of the really good wines available in Virginia.  Grape Envy Guy’s brother and sister-in-law are primarily white wine drinkers who favor chardonnay.  I’m not an ABC drinker (anything but chardonnay), just look at our previous blog posts, but I do think it’s [...]

Today is a milestone for us – this is our 100th post.  When we first started this blog last summer, we made a commitment to each other to post consistently.  To us that meant at least 1 or 2 posts a week.  We’ve been able to keep up a pretty steady pace of three posts [...]

We’re regular visitors to Old House Vineyards.  Because of this, we’ve come to know the family that own the winery, the winemaker, and the other regular players in the tasting room.  What this means is that we sometimes get to hear about wines before they’re actually available.  Their recently released port-style dessert wine (made from [...]

One of my favorite aspects of wine tasting is that you can try before you buy.  Even though I know I typically like chambourcin and petit verdot, I don’t love every wine made from these grapes.  Since I don’t have an unlimited budget, trying first is the best way to make sure I take home [...]

We’ve spent way too much time lately stuck in our house because of the Snoverkill we’ve been experiencing in Virginia.  Because of this, we haven’t been able to visit VA wineries.  This has not kept us from drinking local, however.  We’ve just turned our attention to our wine racks and have actually taken some notes [...]