by Richard Leahy | Mar 26, 2020 | News/Announcements
Due to the Covid-19 scare closing winery tasting rooms, wineries are rapidly using technology platforms such as Zoom, Facetime and Skype to encourage their customers (especially wine club members) to tune in for “virtual” tastings and discussion on their wines. Some...
by Richard Leahy | Mar 18, 2020 | News/Announcements
Michael Broadbent MW, the English wine critic, writer and auctioneer died March 17th at home. He is described by the British trade magazine The Drinks Business as “a towering and influential figure in the wine trade.” Broadbent was born in Yorkshire in 1927 and...
by Richard Leahy | Feb 28, 2020 | Competitions, Events, News/Announcements, Regions & Terroir, Virginia Wine
The Monticello Wine Trail (MWT) will hold its 30th Annual Monticello Cup Wine Competition on Monday, March 2 at Barboursville Vineyards. The competition is closed to the public, but results for the top scoring wines will be announced live during the public Monticello...
by Richard Leahy | Feb 25, 2020 | Competitions, News/Announcements, Virginia Wine
Out of a field of over 500 entries and 64 gold medal Virginia wines, 868 Estate Vineyards in Purcelville, Loudoun County, won the 2020 Virginia Governor’s Cup for their 2017 Vidal blanc passito, a dessert-style wine, awarded by Governor Ralph Northam, to 868...
by Richard Leahy | Feb 21, 2020 | Conferences & Meetings, News/Announcements
Carl Tinder Sr., owner of Tinder Cattle & Vineyard, a vineyard consulting business and agricultural cooperative in Scottsville, was awarded the Virginia Vineyards Association’s “Grower of the Year” award at its annual meeting in...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 5, 2020 | News/Announcements, Tastings/Evaluations
This is my annual list of my favorite wines of 2019. I tasted maybe a hundred or more wines from around the East (Virginia, Finger Lakes and SW Michigan) and liked even more than these, but had to limit this list to the two and three star wines…and just a very few...
