by Richard Leahy | Mar 4, 2025 | XXVirginia Wine
Doug Fabbioli is one of the great leaders of VA’s wine industry. Few growers can match the energy and charisma that Doug casually sustains. His excitement is contagious and his desire to help others and grow the industry comes in spades. “Doug’s passion for the...
by Richard Leahy | Feb 18, 2025 | XXVirginia Wine
(the following is a press release from Virginia Women in Wine, 2/16/25) A project of Virginia Women in Wine, the Virginia Women in Wine Trail is a curated route through local women-owned or women-centered wineries and vineyards, offering participants the opportunity...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 21, 2025 | XXVirginia Wine
Philip Carter Winery is a small estate vineyard in Rappahannock County. The proprietor is Philip Carter Strother, a descendant of Charles Carter, who was documented as having been the first person we know of to have grown grapes and produced wine from them in the...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 12, 2025 | Virginia Wine
Gray Ghost Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 2014: a wine for a winter’s night I’ve been ransacking my cellar for weeks now, trying to get the biggest, gutsiest red wines I can find, going through Spanish, Rhone, and California Zinfandels. In Virginia...
by Richard Leahy | Jan 3, 2025 | Regions & Terroir, Tastings/Evaluations, Virginia Wine, XXVirginia Wine
**+ Stinson Vineyards Mourvedre 2023: Winemaker Rachel Stinson used a lot of whole cluster fruit (stem inclusion) in this fermentation, resulting in a lighter, fruitier varietal style, that still has a smokiness to it. Palate: fine acidity, lightly fruity, a late...
by Richard Leahy | Nov 22, 2024 | Tastings/Evaluations
I like to post my annual Thanksgiving wine recommendations in the prior week, so people have time to read them and then shop for them. As a locavore and also as a historian, I promote drinking locally, especially since Thanksgiving is an East Coast American tradition....
