by Richard Leahy | May 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Patrick Keese is a remarkable young man. He teaches and plays the violin (also the guitar), has worked a summer doing vineyard work at Stinson Vineyards, and is planning to bike across the country this summer with the Bike and Build Foundation, building houses along...
by Richard Leahy | Apr 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Saturday April 8th, the second annual Film Festival at Little Washington took place in the Rappahannock town of that name. Scott Elliff, proprietor of DuCard Vineyards, was one of the event’s organizers and poured samples of his wine prior to the screening of...
by Richard Leahy | Mar 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
February 25th, 2017 – Fauquier County’s Third Annual Wine Tasting & Competition attracted 500 attendees and 14 local wineries to Airlie on Saturday, February 25th. The event, sponsored by the Fauquier County Department of Economic Development and hosted by...
by Richard Leahy | Feb 18, 2017 | Tastings/Evaluations, Uncategorized, Winery Visits
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...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 26, 2017 | Competitions, Tastings/Evaluations, Uncategorized, Virginia Wine
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...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
This fall I’ve been around Virginia, visiting wineries and moderating a seminar on the future of Virginia wine at the American Wine Society conference, and showing Decanter columnist Andrew Jefford around the Monticello wineries at harvest. I even made wine with...
