Expertise

Richard Leahy is a wine writer and consultant who has been reporting on the wines of Virginia and Eastern North America since 1986. He works with numerous wineries in Virginia and along the East Coast and has been writing for the wine industry since 1986.

He became well-known in the Eastern wine industry as East Coast Editor for Vineyard & Winery Management, and is the Mid-Atlantic and Southern Editor for the ground-breaking Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America (2000), a regional editor for Kevin Zraly’s  American Wine Guide. and assisted Steve DeLong on his recent Wine Tasting Notebook. Mr. Leahy is a member of the Circle of Wine Writers, professional organization of leading wine journalists based in the U.K.

Richard was the Executive Director of the Virginia Wine Experience in London in May 2007. The event was timed to coordinate with the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement and was a huge success — as written in an account in the Financial Times of London on 9/1/2007.

Richard is pleased to offer “Virginia Wine Expert” tours of select wineries in the Monticello Wine Trail around Charlottesville, through an exclusive arrangement with Blue Ridge Wine Tours, as mentioned in Piedmont Virginian’s blog (http://www.piedmontvirginian.com/blog/2010/10/14/drink-toast-and-travel-luxuriously/). More information is available at http://albemarlevintagelimousine.com/wine-tours/