by Richard Leahy | May 30, 2019 | Competitions, News/Announcements, Regions & Terroir
– 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...
by Richard Leahy | May 26, 2019 | News/Announcements
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...
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 | Mar 12, 2019 | Conferences & Meetings, Events, News/Announcements
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...
by Richard Leahy | Feb 22, 2019 | News/Announcements, Regions & Terroir
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...
