Making Good Use of Pruned Vines
Château Haut-Bailly posted the following on their Facebook page:Pruning results in bundles of vine wood, very convenient to make tasty barbecues in summer! // A tous les Bordelais gourmands : pourquoi ne pas anticiper les grillades estivales et venir ...
Nate Walsh Talks About the Harvest at Sunset Hills
YouTube VideoI managed to corner Nate Walsh, winemaker at Sunset Hills, during the Route 9 Barrel Tasting. He was nice enough to talk about the 2011 vintage, including how well the year started, before the endless rains came.Great interview with lots o...
Virginia Wine Lost One of its Own This Week
I got the following email from Jennifer Breaux at Breaux Vineyards:It is through tears and a heavy heart that I write to inform you that our friend and colleague, Richard Gates, passed away yesterday. Richard was diagnosed with colon cancer very recent...
Route 9 Barrel Tasting This Weekend!
Similar to En Primeur in Bordeaux, once a year the winemakers along Route 9 open their cellars and give visitors a chance to preview some of the upcoming vintages. This is called the Route 9 Barrel Tasting and is a lot of fun. The event is this Satur...
Cabernet Vertical at Breaux Vineyards
Among my favorite activities during the slower winter months are the verticals at Breaux Vineyards. Each year, Breaux hosts a Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Nebbiolo Vertical, pairing the different vintages with food from Grandale Farms. This year we ...
Preparing for the Chocolate & Wine Tasting Fundraiser
Planning a charity event is, not surprisingly, hard work. There is a lot of coordination that has to go on between the different companies who are participating, the companies who are donating and getting the word out about the event. Of course, some...
Rumor: New Winery to Open in Purcellville
The Route 9 wine way Is set to get a little more crowded with a new winery slated to open adjacent to Grandale Farm. The wine is going to be produced by Carl DiManno, who was the winemaker Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard until last year. Details on the ve...
An Infographic of Wine Consumption in the United States
It seems you all really love infographics. In fact, we could save a lot of writing effort just by putting all of our entries in picture form. This infographic shows the amount of wine consumed in the United States during 2010 and was sent to us by th...
Wine & Chocolate Tasting: New Addition and Silent Auction
The Wine & Chocolate Tasting Benefitting the National MS Society is less than a month away and the event is really coming together. I am very excited to announce that we have added 8 Chains North to the list of wineries that will be pouring at the ...
Blending Class at Boxwood Winery
Boxwood Winery recently offered a blending class to a small group of wine lovers. I've done similar classes at Fabbioli Cellars, so I was very excited to attend this event, especially after I found out Frank, from Drink What You Like, was going to be t...
How Winemakers Spend Their Winter Break: An Interview with Nate Walsh
The grapes are harvested, the wine is aging in the barrel or tank and winery traffic is down. Clearly, winter is a time when winemakers can lounge around and take it easy. Not so fast, there is actually a lot of work that goes on in a winery during t...
