We’ve been blogging about our adventures with VA wine for nearly a year now.  Hopefully, by this point, you’ve figured out that we’re not wine snobs.  We’ll try nearly any kind of wine because you never know when you’ll find a really special one somewhere you weren’t expecting.  This means that we’re happy to drink [...]

The recent hot weather has had me on a real chilled wine kick – to the point where I’m even planning ahead and keeping a bottle (or three) in the fridge for wine emergencies.  (While I’m a planner in most areas of my life, wine has always been more of an impulse choice for me, [...]

I usually have a pretty good idea of what we’ve got for wine even if my partner doesn’t.  After all, he’s mostly farmed out the job of keeping it all organized to me.  Despite this, however, every once in a while, I forget about a bottle, or even where that bottle came from, and get [...]

We wrote about Gray Ghost a few months ago, and at that time, we mentioned their Holiday Open House.  It was this past weekend, and we found ourselves there on Sunday enjoying the sight of some snow covered vines as we arrived. This is one of our favorite winery events.  For $15, you get unlimited [...]

So, Narmada Winery had their grand opening weekend, and of course we braved the crowds to be a part of it. We finally got to see the tasting room; I have to say, either the Patils have amazing taste, or their designer does. What a beautifully simple, elegant space! It’s a really good-sized tasting room [...]

When we went to Unicorn Winery to do a tasting, my expectations were quite low.  From one perspective, that might make you think that it wouldn’t be hard for a winery to surpass my expectations, but usually when I enter with low expectations a location lives down to them.  I was pleasantly surprised to avoid [...]

One of the first Virginia wineries we ever tried was Gray Ghost Vineyards. Over the years our tastes have changed as we’ve learned about wine and developed our palates. Would it hold up? As it turns out, it does. For the most part. The ’08 Chardonnay got a big fat happy face. It’s nicely balanced [...]

Over the weekend, Grape Envy Guy and I went to check out a new addition to the VA winery world: Narmada Winery.  While Narmada won’t have its official grand opening until sometime in November, I heard through a friend of a friend that they were starting to pour over Labor Day weekend, and we wanted [...]