Tagged With: Veritas Vineyards & 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
Chemist Discovers Way to Create Puerto Rican Beverage from Wine, Indigo, and Tobacco
GEG being sick this summer has really sucked, especially for him. While it definitely put a crimp in our busy and wine-filled lives, at least one positive has come from this. Being stuck in the house so much has led to us rediscovering our love of board and card games. We’ve always liked them, but … Continue reading
Winemakers Face Off in the Squared Circle, Everyone Wins
I’m sure there are lots of super creative ways that I could approach writing posts to share my TasteCamp experiences with you, but I have to admit that I’m having trouble coming up with any of them. Given that, I’ll leave that to other bloggers and will just take a fairly linear approach. I’m also … Continue reading
“I Love Me Some Sweet Festival Wines” Purrs Blogger High on Veritas Serum
I’ve been a fan of the sauvignon blanc from Veritas Vineyard since the first time I tasted it. Every year, I try to buy a few bottles when it’s released so that they’ll hold me through until the following year when the new release comes out. Since I recently bought my first bottle of the … 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
Wine Critic Defenestrated for Describing Flinty Sauv Blanc as “Litterbox, But In a Good Way!”
We’ve been to Veritas Winery many, many times and enjoyed it. We were even lucky enough to meet the folks behind the scenes at the Wine Bloggers Conference this summer. With a trip to Charlottesville to meet friends planned, we decided to meet up at Veritas and taste some wines. Immediately upon entering we were … Continue reading
Buxom Teen Discovers the Danger of Looking in the Mirror and Whispering “Winemaker, Winemaker, Winemaker”
On March 3rd at 3:33, the wine “3″ was released. This wine was a collaborations of Matthieu Finot (winemaker at King Family Vineyards), Jake Busching (then the winemaker at Pollak Vineyards), and Emily Pelton (winemaker at Veritas Vineyards). The wine was a blend of 33% merlot from King Family, 33% cab franc from Pollak, and … Continue reading
Local Bloggers Learn Too Late That Dining “Al Fresco” Doesn’t Mean Nekkid
Has anyone told you yet that it’s Virginia Wine Month? (Oh right, we did!) Has anyone told you that the state grape of VA is now viognier? (Yup, we covered that one too.) Well, Jordan Harris, winemaker and general manager at Tarara Winery has brought the two of these things together in the Tarara’s Fine … Continue reading
Sauv Blanc Mistaken for Top Secret Blend of Vinifera and Poa Pratensis
2010 was a really hot year. This means that the grapes got really ripe (and in the case of 2010 – really fast). While this is a good thing, in many ways, when it comes to the white wines, it also sometimes means that there’s less acid there because the fruit got so ripe. Don’t … Continue reading
How to Fit 30 Bloggers in Your Cellar and Make Them Say Thank You
At the Wine Bloggers Conference, we had the good fortune to get on Bus 4 for our mystery bus tour (the best bus!), and our first stop was at newly opened Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyards. We had a great time there, but I was also excited to see what would await us when we … Continue reading
No Longer Forgotten
I’ve griped on this blog in the past about forgetting about bottles in our wine racks. This led to us taking inventory of our bottles a few weeks ago and cataloging them all in a sortable google docs spreadsheet that we can each access from any computer or our phones. The hope was that this … Continue reading
Summer Sipping, VA Wine Style
For those of you who don’t follow all the wine chatter on twitter, you’re likely not very aware of how frequent online wine tastings have become. Virginia has started to come on board with this, and the VA Wine Board Marketing Office has worked to facilitate a number of these over the last few months. … Continue reading
We’re all a-twitter
Wine tastings via twitter are happening all the time, and Virginia’s been in on the action a few times. In fact, VA wine with be front and center on twitter again on Tuesday, May 24th when a summer wine twitter tasting takes place at 8pm (eastern). The Virginia Wine Board Marketing Office wanted to highlight … Continue reading
Rhones Not From The Rhone: WBW #71
When this month’s edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday was announced by Wine Cast, the host for this edition, I knew that we’d be drinking local. It’s true that VA wine is what we do, but WBW also offers us a chance to push out of our comfort zone as was true with last month’s theme … Continue reading
20 Reasons My Wine Region’s Better Than Yours: VA Wine Diva
A while back, Jordan Harris, winemaker at Tarara challenged us, and other Virginia wine bloggers, to list our top 20 Virginia wines. He was curious not because e wanted to see how many Tarara wines made the list, but because he was interested to see what characteristics seem to be appealing to people. It took … Continue reading
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