Virginia Wine Month kicked off yesterday 1 October and with almost 200 wineries now in the state, there are lots of ways to celebrate. Virginia Wine's website features all the ways to 'discover your local crush,' this year's theme: Restaurants offering Virginia wines by the glass and other specials. Events day by day guide like [...]
Just in time for Virginia Wine Month (starts tomorrow Saturday 1 October), I received my first shipment from the Virginia Wine of the Month Club! I discovered this convenient service at the Virginia Wine Festival a few weeks ago. They've been delivering monthly shipments of Virginia wine to members for 22 years! Each month they [...]
Giampaolo could not be missed at the tasting table...his enthusiastic tastings of his family's Tabarrini wines filled the 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference Meet the Sponsor room. You couldn't resist stopping by to enjoy his wines and listen to tasting notes and stories of his winery and hometown in Montefalco, Italy (province of Perugia in Umbria [...]
Wine judging has been a bit of a mystery topic to me topic, but thanks to the Wine Judging Made Simple seminar at Sunday's 36th Annual Virginia Wine Festival, I now have a great understanding of the process! Walter Rachele, a graduate of the American Wine Society Wine Judge Training Program and judge in their commercial [...]
My goal at Sunday's 36th Annual Virginia Wine Festival was two part...1) Buy a few great examples of Virginia wine for my upcoming girls' weekend, and 2) Discover a few new Virginia wineries I haven't tried. Success on both fronts!! The two-day event held in Centreville, Virginia (about 30 miles west of Washington, DC) brought together 40+ [...]