Cooper Vineyards is one of those wineries that we’ve enjoyed since our first visit.  In fact, it’s the first place Grape Envy Guy ever tasted norton and fell in love at first sip.  We’re excited at the prospect of their new tasting room that is currently under construction and wanted a chance to taste their [...]

Okay – we’re not referring to the cult TV show (good by the way).  We’re referring to that time of year when you can sit outside and watch the fireflies light up the night.  Summer is usually white wine time around here (can you tell by all the posts lately?), but a chilled red can [...]

I’ve mentioned before that when I find a forgotten bottle of wine in our racks, it feels as though the wine fairy has paid us a visit.  This time, I wish she hadn’t.  In going through our racks, we recently found a bottle of Lake Side Sunset (nv) from Lake Anna Winery.  While we were [...]

Okay, Lake Anna Winery is actually not the first winery in VA we visited, but the first VA wine we ever drank was the stainless chardonnay from Lake Anna.  We were having dinner at a colleague’s house while we were apartment hunting before moving to VA for my job.  We were both surprised by how [...]

Our recent explorations brought us to Grayhaven Winery.  We’d heard next to nothing about them; so we were going in blind.  Boy am I glad we went, even if they did tease me with a wine I couldn’t buy.  It totally made being out in the crappy weather worth it. Grayhaven is a very small [...]

A lazy Saturday afternoon found us pulling down the long driveway to Cooper Vineyards in Louisa, VA. We were last here a little over two years ago. Our impression then was that the wines were ok, but nothing special. We hadn’t bothered coming back, because we felt we knew what the wines were; why make [...]