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...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 2, 2020 | News/Announcements
As reported in the Washington Post on 12/31, the Trump Organization fired seven migrant workers at the Trump Winery without appropriate legal work permits. This happened nearly a year after the Trump Organization pledged to dismiss any workers without immigration...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 2, 2020 | News/Announcements
Pierre Galet, a French viticulturist, researcher and developer of the science of ampelogaphy, or identifying grapevine varieties by the shapes and patterns in their leaves, as well as petioles, cluster patterns and shoots, died on December 30th of a heart attack just...
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,...
