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The Barns at Hamilton Station Wins the 2017 Virginia Governor’s Cup for Their 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon
Richmond, February 21: Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced at the John Marshall Ballroom that from a field of some two dozen gold medal winners in the 2017 Governor's Cup Competition, that the Cup winner is newcomer The Barns at Hamilton Station for their 2014...
VA Wineries Association Announces Gold Medal Winners from the 2017 Governor’s Cup Competition
The Virginia Wineries Association Governor’s Cup® Virginia Wine Competition judging is final and the list of golds are announced. Twenty-three Virginia wines have been awarded gold medals in the 2017 Virginia wine competition, which was held over a four week period...
Boordy Vineyards at 37 Years Under the DeFords
Maryland’s first post-Prohibition winery, Boordy Vineyards located in a very peaceful, undeveloped corner of Baltimore County, began as a vineyard in 1945 where Philip Wagner, the editor of the Baltimore Sun, had succeeded the great H.L. Mencken. Wagner experimented...
Narmada Winery Yash-Vir 2014 named Best of Class at the 2017 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.
Narmada Winery Yash-Vir 2014, a red bordeaux-blend, was named Best of Class at the 2017 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. Over 7,000 entries from 28 states were judged, making this the largest competition for American wines in the world. According to the...
My Favorite Wines of 2016
2016 was a very good year for my wine tasting adventures. These are over 40 of my favorite wines tasted last year. The ones with double diamonds are especially outstanding. Hats off to Dr. Frank Vinifera Cellars on Keuka Lake in New York for the highest number of...
Jancis Robinson, MW To Donate Personal Papers to UC Davis
As reported by Jessica Nusbaum in UC Davis' University News, British author Jancis Robinson MW, called “the most respected wine critic and journalist in the world” by Decanter magazine, has donated her archive from over four decades of wine writing to the library at...