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Catoctin Breeze Vineyars Wins 2019 MD Comptroller’s Cup With 2017 Estate Cabernet Franc
- Following the success of the their 2016 Cabernet Franc, Catoctin Breeze Vineyard in Thurmont has won the 2019 Comptroller’s Cup with their 2017 Estate Cabernet Franc. Standing out from 165 competing wines from 31 wineries, this Cabernet Franc took top honors in its...
David King of King Family Vineyards Dies at 64
David King, who founded King Family Vineyards west of Crozet in 1998 with his wife Ellen, died May 2nd of cancer. David had been a corporate lawyer from Houston (no relation to the Kings of the King Ranch), and when the Kings bought the property they were thinking of...
VA Tech Names Winemaking Consultant Tom Payette “Distinguished Alumnus”
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,...
King Family Vineyards’ 2016 Mountain Plain Red Blend Wins 2019 Monticello Cup
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...
2019 Monticello Cup Gold Medals Announced
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...
Wine of the Week: Hermit Woods Strawberry Rhubarb
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 bottle of...