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Thanks, Virginia

If you are looking for the perfect beverage to accompany your Thanksgiving meal, area producers have many options,...

Warm ups

With current temperatures and humidity remaining high, many of us are likely still enjoying crisp and refreshing...

Raise a glass to 2019

Like all agricultural endeavors, growing grapes is subject to the vicissitudes of weather. In Virginia, after a...

Fall for it

After the harvest rain-out of 2018, this year’s Virginia wine vintage brings especially welcome news: a healthy,...

Crushing it

He pulls the golf cart onto the right side of the gravel path: “Let me show you some of this viognier.” Carrington...

Magic is being made with...

When Vera Preddy and her late husband, Wayne, purchased their property on Gibson Mountain in 1985, they never...

The sweet spot

Several decades into Virginia’s booming post-Prohibition wine economy, we are starting to home in on some special...

Chardonnay and petit verdot...

This is a good time to catch up with winemakers about the 2016 vintage, a year marked by frost events early in the...

Virginia Tech’s impact on...

You’ll often find a university at the epicenter of many of the world’s great wine regions. Learning institutions help...