by Richard Leahy | May 12, 2019 | News/Announcements
Tom Payette, a winemaking consultant based in Orange Co., VA was awarded Virginia Tech’s Department of Food Science and Technology’s Distinguished Alumnus in Government or Industry Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Science Alumni Organization on Friday,...
by Richard Leahy | Apr 29, 2019 | Competitions, News/Announcements, Regions & Terroir, Tastings/Evaluations, Virginia Wine
From a field of 60 entries, all from grapes grown in the Monticello AVA, and from a final field of six (three white wines and three red wines), the top wine of the 2019 Monticello Cup competition was the Mountain Plains 2016 from King Family Vineyards in Crozet. This...
by Richard Leahy | Apr 22, 2019 | Competitions, Virginia Wine
Charlottesville , VA –Twenty wineries from the Monticello Wine Trail (MWT) competed in the 2019 Monticello Cup Wine Competition, a competition among wineries in the Monticello American Viticultural Area (AVA). This year’s competition was coordinated by the Virginia...
by Richard Leahy | Apr 10, 2019 | Fruit Wines
At the recent Eastern Winery Exposition, I ran into the three partners of Hermit Woods Winery in Meredith, NH, which was rated by Wine & Spirits as the top craft beverage producer in the state last year. Bob Manley, the energetic marketing manager, gave me a...
by Richard Leahy | Apr 7, 2019 | Tastings/Evaluations, Virginia Wine, Winery Visits
On April 6th, Afton Mountain Vineyards owners Tony and Elizabeth Smith celebrated ten years operating the winery under their ownership with an open house that featured a talk by Gabrielle Rausse, one of the Virginia industry’s founders, this writer (author...
