Tagged With: paradise springs winery
Homeland Security Learns of Blogger Plot to Assemble 13 Pressurized Bottle of Intoxicants, Shows Up with Flintstones Jelly Glasses. And Handcuffs
Overview We recently attended the now annual VA sparkling wine tasting organized by Frank Morgan of Drink What You Like. This year, Early Mountain Vineyards hosted us, and as always, we had a great time catching up with our blogging friends while also checking in on the state of sparkling wine in VA. Once again, … Continue reading
Bookmobile Stops at Winery, Levar Burton Calls it “Best Idea EVER”
Well, we may have taken a few weeks off from writing (darn those day jobs that pay the bills and keep us in VA wine!), but wine, and Virginia wine in particular was still part of our lives. One of the VA wine-related things we did recently was attend the book release party for Beyond Jefferson’s Vines, … Continue reading
Bill Nye Develops Carbon Sequestration Technology Using Booze, Bubbles, and Bloggers
Everyone involved had so much fun with last year’s blind tasting of Virginia sparkling wines that Frank Morgan decided to organize a second annual tasting. This year, in addition to Frank, Paul and Warren, and Grape Envy Guy and I (the holdovers from last year), the tasters included Allan, Melissa, Anthony, Megan (who writes about … Continue reading
Blind Blogging Mice Fall Into Wine Tank, Saved by Bobbing Corks
Have you ever done a blind tasting? This is when you wrap wine bottles from a given category (e.g., merlot) in brown paper bags or tinfoil and pour samples without knowing which winery (or vintage) the wine is from. The idea is that by removing the labels from view, you can also remove preconceptions the … Continue reading
Modern Day Alchemists Turn Wine Into Wood
A year ago we visited Paradise Springs Winery in Clifton, Virginia. This time around we got to check out the new tasting space. It’s an Audrey Hepburn-level of beautiful and sophisticated with its high ceilings, loads of wood, and dramatically lighted barrel room separated from the tasting space by a glass wall. They were doing … Continue reading
Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere
When we visited the Eastern Shore in the fall with Frank (from Drink What You Like) and his wife Acada & Paul and Warren(from Virginia Wine Time), one of the topics we spent some time talking about was VA Sparkling wines. We all thought Virginia had some nice sparkling options, but we all also expressed … Continue reading
Norton Lovers of the World Unite
It took a while for me to get there, but I’m now firmly in the norton lover camp. It’s not that I love every norton out there, but I do appreciate the earthy, acidic, rich wine made from this grape. When we visited Paradise Springs Winery, their norton stood out to us, and a bottle … Continue reading
A Visit to the Cellar
We’ve been getting prods via comments on this blog for months to check out Paradise Springs Winery. We were particularly interested in trying their norton since Grape Envy Guy is such a big fan of that grape. When we arrived at the old log cabin that holds the tasting room (and the really cool tasting … Continue reading
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