We’re not big chardonnay people.  We have a few we really enjoy, but we really need to stop buying bottles of chard because most just languish on our shelves until we give in and open them.  This was what happened with the ’08 Gray Ghost Vineyards chardonnay.  It had sat on our shelf long enough, [...]

Given that we buy at least 90% of our wine after first trying it, you’d think all our bottles would be ones we really like.  Regular readers realize this is not the case.  Sometimes whatever it was that attracted us to the bottle the day we bought it is no longer clear by the time [...]

Weather this spring has been all over the map.  During one of the swings towards cold temps, I found myself craving a rich, full bodied wine.  Since we’re also trying to make some progress  towards our goal of becoming century club members, I rifled through our shelves looking for a full bodied red with a [...]

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 [...]

One of the things I remember about our first tasting experience at the Winery at La Grange last summer was how my intrepid partner knew when the Norton was about to be poured based on the smell wafting from the bottle as it approached us.  A bottle must have made it home with us, and [...]

Rappahannock Cellars is one of those places where we know we’ll find a good bottle of wine.  In fact, we usually find multiple good bottles of wine.  It’s a more formal type of tasting with multiple glasses and a higher fee (of course you do get your own bottle of water ), and the space [...]

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 [...]

Never having heard of it, I almost deleted the email announcing that Molon Lave was now open. What the heck is a Molon Lave ? As it turns out, it’s a vineyard/winery owned by the son of Louis Papadopoulos, owner of Mediterranean Cellars (which we reviewed here- now do you get the Webster spinoff reference?). [...]

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 [...]