Some friends suggested we meet them at Afton Mountain Vineyards for an afternoon of wine and music since they were having an event and none of us has much experience with their wines.  Since the first (and last) time we visited was last summer right after an ownership change and before the opening of their [...]

We recently spent some time with friends visiting wineries in the Charlottesville area.  One of our stops was Veritas.  We’d recently been there, and we’re typically bigger fans of their whites than their reds, so we decided to do only the white flight this time out.  I was really excited, however, when I realized that [...]

We recently opened a bottle of the 2008 Cardinal Point Vineyard & Winery Riesling/Gewurztraminer (50/50).  We bought this wine during our c-ville wine tasting vacation to celebrate our 5th anniversary last summer.  Because it was a lightly sweet wine (1% residual sugar according to their website) that I couldn’t remember anything specific about, I resisted [...]

Lucky us, we got to try the ’09 Viogner from Veritas Vineyards and Winery at the Twitter Taste-Off at the Drink Local Wine Conference. It made us realize, hey- we need to get our butts back to Veritas! So, just like Arthur Dent flew by aiming for the ground and missing, we aimed the Winery [...]

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 twitter tasting, [...]

Veritas Vineyards and Winery was a new to us visit for Grape Envy Guy and me.  We’re definitely glad we made the decision to stop here.  Our first impression as we pulled into the parking area was that the location was gorgeous.  There’s a beautiful picnic area in a wooded area and a nice grassy [...]

Usually we leave a vineyard with a bottle or two of wine.  When we left Afton Mountain Vineyards, we went with a bag designed to hold 6 bottles of wine (a useful purchase given the way we buy wine).  It wasn’t that the wines were bad; they were just unusual.  This is not a bad [...]

Ok, so I’ll be the first to admit that Cardinal Point Vineyard and Winery isn’t the most beautiful facility in the state. Steel buildings are set on a gravel parking lot, but they’ve made a real effort with some great landscaping and a really unexpected interior. The tasting room is very modern, with a sleek, [...]

A fun tasting was  Flying Fox Vineyard in Afton, Virginia. It’s a neat little tasting room right alongside Highway 151. Apparently the actual vines are grown on a different piece of land; the Flying Fox folks used to sell their wines at farmer’s markets and festivals, before realizing what a good thing a tasting room [...]