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8th Eastern Winery Exposition Opens March 19th in Syracuse, NY
The eighth annual Eastern Winery Exposition opens in one week, Tuesday March 19th at the Oncenter in downtown Syracuse, NY. EWE is the largest production wine industry trade show and conference east of the Pacific states, and will feature 215 exhibitors, a day of...
Virginia’s Horton Vineyards Wins the 2019 Governor’s Cup with 2016 Petit Manseng
[From the Virginia Wine Marketing Office, 2/26/19] Governor Ralph Northam awarded the 2019 Virginia Wineries Association’s (VWA) Governor's Cup to Horton Vineyards for their 2016 Petit Manseng at the 2019 Governor’s Cup Gala. The Gala took place Tuesday evening,...
Karl Hambsch of Loving Cup Winery is 2019 VVA “Grower of the Year”
At the annual technical meeting of the Virginia Vineyards Association meeting at the Omni in February, Karl Hampsch, proprietor of Loving Cup Winery in North Garden was named "Grower of the Year" for 2019. The award was presented by Bettina Ring, Virginia Secretary of...
My Favorite Wines Tasted in 2018
When I finally finished the first draft of this exhaustive list of my favorite wines from 2018, I realized I had to cut it back to only those wines that I’d rated 3 stars or I’d have pages and pages, and I knew you only wanted to read about the BEST! (note: this draft...
My First Taste of the Superlative 2017 Vintage
In my last post, I highlighted my favorite tank or barrel samples of the infant 2018 vintage. As Maryland vintner and friend Mike Fiore would say, “Not so bad!” Vintners may have lost up to half of their potential crop, but from what I’ve seen they did a great job...
My First Taste of 2017 and 2018 Virginia Wines
So first, let me take back the complete and total write-off I made of the 2018 vintage in Virginia recently. Nobody will dispute that as far back as we can remember, this vintage was the pits, for the inches of rain and crop loss either due to poor fruit set in May or...