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The Best & Worst of Virginia Wine |
Merlot is a grape about which many are dismissive. Some blame it on the movie Sideways - I think it has more to do with boring, supermarket merlots. Regardless, I think it's important not to be dismissive about a whole class of wines. No one will love every wine, and some people just don't like ...
Just like most kids who grew up in the '80s, I was a huge fan of Wagnerian opera. While the weird kids at school were jamming out to Thriller, us cool kids were grooving to chicks in viking helmets belting out Das Rheingold. Good times. These memories led me to mounting excitement to visit a ...
When we've got a full house for dinner, as we did over the holidays, we typically open up 2 or three different bottles of wine and let people pour at will. We try to pick wines that we think will work with the meal, but sometimes one bottle will work better than another. Such was ...
Often I have some idea of what to expect from a new to us winery before we get there. I may have heard about it from other VA wine folks, spent time checking out their website, or even read some Yelp reviews. I may do this because I want to know how many wines are ...
On March 3rd at 3:33, the wine "3" was released. This wine was a collaborations of Matthieu Finot (winemaker at King Family Vineyards), Jake Busching (then the winemaker at Pollak Vineyards), and Emily Pelton (winemaker at Veritas Vineyards). The wine was a blend of 33% merlot from King Family, 33% cab franc from Pollak, and ...
We've started to play more with food and wine pairings, and we're trying to do our best to share our hits and misses with you. I get that picking a wine for a meal can be stressful, but when we're at home, if a pairing doesn't work out, we either open another bottle (typically if ...
Wow, back in the saddle! It felt weird not blogging for a few weeks. Imagine being Johnny Depp and going a month without Tim Burton dressing you up like a My Buddy doll. It's like that. Anyhow, our southern Virginia wine tour included Tomahawk Mill Vineyard & Winery in Chatham, VA. The winery is located in ...
Sometimes you find a new winery and think "where have you been all my life," other times, you think "how fast can I get back to the winery assault vehicle." Most of the time, however, I have more mixed reactions. I may like some of the wines or see potential in a new winery and, ...
We were first introduced to The Homeplace Vineyard when Nancy, from VA Wine in My Pocket, brought a bottle of their wine to a party. That wine, Old Red Tractor (a cab sauv/chambourcin blend), wasn't to my taste, but I've learned to keep an open mind and check things out for myself. When we arrived, ...
We received an email from Allan at Cellarblog, asking us to help promote a charity wine event he's putting together that takes place Sunday, February 12th. Because we like Allan and we like charity, I told him we'd be happy to do what we could, but I wanted him to answer a few questions about ...
While Virginia wine is clearly a passion of ours, we're also big fans of the local hard cider producers. Hard cider doesn't have to be the sweet, mass-produced stuff you find in supermarkets. Foggy Ridge Cider, Albemarle CiderWorks, and Castle Hill Cider have all demonstrated that hard cider can be an artisan product that can ...
We were on a mission. Since we don't often get down to the southwestern part of the state, given that we were in the area, we determined to grind out as many visits as we could. Knowing that distances aren't always as great as they look on the Virginia wine map, we rolled across the ...
You may have figured out that we're fans of the wines at Jefferson Vineyards. These wines, particularly the petit verdot and the meritage, attracted my attention from the first time I tasted them, but it took a few visits for my partner to become a fan. Thankfully, his palate has become more aligned with mine, ...
There's a common theme with the wineries we visited in way-southern Virginia: we drove through a whole bunch of nothing, passed no cars, and pulled into an empty parking lot. Compared to wine tasting in NoVA on a Saturday, that ain't bad. That's exactly what we did when we rolled up to Bright Meadows Farm ...
Glen Manor Vineyards is, hands down, one of my favorite wineries in the state (or the world, really). I've yet to taste one of Jeff White's wines that I haven't wanted to take home with me. Many of the Glen Manor wines we've bought to date are ones we're trying to age, but every time ...
