by Richard Leahy | Feb 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
Tonight, Feb. 27, 2018, the winner of the Virginia Wine Governor’s Cup will be announced by Governor Ralph Northam. The field is a record size; 99 gold medals competing for the Cup, while 12 wines total will compete for the highest scoring honors to fill the...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 16, 2018 | Regions & Terroir, Tastings/Evaluations, Uncategorized, Winery Visits
SE Arizone Wine Country Part 2: Wines of Sonoita Jay and I had an action-packed day of curated winery visits the next day around Sonoita. We began at 9:30 a.m. At Dos Cabezas Vineyards. Winemaker Todd Bostock worked quickly, taking us through the line-up of current...
by Richard Leahy | Aug 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
The hot ticket these days in the Finger Lakes region of New York is what’s happening with red wines, now that sparkling, riesling and charonnay have all been well-established as classics for some time. Two years ago I visited southeast Seneca Lake (the...
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...
