With as beastly hot as it’s been (seriously, Virginia- come on!), we’ve definitely been cranking through the white wines instead of the reds lately. On yet another balmy Virginia evening, I opened the fridge to see a bottle of Lovingston Winery‘s 2008 Petit Manseng waving at me from the bottom shelf. Unlike the Lovingston cab [...]

If you’ve read any of my reactions to fairly oaky chardonnays, you’re probably familiar with the fact that I often state my negative reaction to the unbalanced oak as being like licking a table.  Oak is not always balanced in red wines either, but the lack of balance has not typically bothered me as much [...]

When I talked about our visit to Lovingston Winery, I mentioned that the pinotage grape was relatively new to me but that I could come to like it.  Pinotage has a lot of detractors, and to be fair, there are a lot of really horrible pinotage wines out there.  There are also some real advocates [...]

A few weeks ago, some friends of ours surprised us by arranging for a group of us to go wine tasting at Lovingston Winery.  We were quite excited because we’d heard good things about them from Lori Corcoran via twitter and had enjoyed the one wine of theirs we were able to taste at Barrel [...]