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Interview with Jake Busching of Pollak Vineyards

Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010

Coming off a great showing at the Monticello Cup Wine Competition here in Virginia, Jake Busching, GM and winemaker of Pollak Vineyards granted me an interview talking about his wines that won at “The Cup” 1. AW: Congratulations on the win at the Monticello Cup! You had four wines place in the competition with the [...]

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Two years goes by fast

Date: Thu, May 27, 2010

When I first visited Barrel Oak Winery in Delaplane, Virginia it looked like this… …now they are about to celebrate their 2 year anniversary this Memorial Day weekend.  Being a bit of a distance away I don’t get up to see the winery as often as possible but when I do, I always have a [...]

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TasteCamp 2010, an evening at Red Newt Cellars

Date: Wed, May 26, 2010

The first evening of TasteCamp finished up with a tasting and dinner at Red Newt Cellars on Seneca Lake. The sun setting over the lake provided a beautiful backdrop to the evening as well as providing a delicate amber hue to the tasting room.  Laid out in front of us were 3 stations of Riesling [...]

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Vineyard Visuals: White Hall Vineyards

Date: Tue, May 25, 2010

These shots are from White Hall Vineyards in White Hall, Virginia. They were taken a little over a week ago.

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Back to the beginning…

Date: Mon, May 24, 2010

This is a guest post from friend John McClung, Real Estate Agent by day, wine lover by night. You can follow him on Twitter @johndmcclung. I had a great bottle of wine the other night. Almost tweeted about it, but it was too special. Let me explain: My first taste of a wine that was [...]

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Hermann J. Wiemer 2008 “Magdalena Vineyard” Riesling; better with food

Date: Thu, May 20, 2010

Don’t let the title fool you, this wine rocked on it’s own, but the Wiemer 2008 “Magdalena Vineyard” Riesling ($36) is definitely a food wine. I tasted the wine originally at TasteCamp, where I bought a couple of bottles to bring home with me. I’m glad I bought two, wish I had bought more, but [...]

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Vineyard Visuals – Jefferson Vineyards

Date: Wed, May 19, 2010

These pictures were taken at Jefferson Vineyards which is in the Monticello AVA, about a week ago. If you would like to have your vineyard visuals on the blog, just shoot me an email. Cheers

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An afternoon at Ravines Wine Cellars

Date: Mon, May 17, 2010

Ravines was the second stop on our first day of TasteCamp 2010. We meandered around Keuka Lake from Heron Hill to the Eastern side where Ravines has a beautiful view of the Lake.  Morten and Lisa Hallgren had a great list of wines for us to taste, setup in a paired fashion for a little [...]

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Pinot from Patagonia

Date: Thu, May 13, 2010

Yes, a Pinot Noir from Patagonia, Argentina. Yesterday I had the opportunity to taste this wine. It wasn’t knock your socks off good, but at $11.50 I was quite impressed. The wine region of Patagonia is growing as more winemakers are seeing the promise of producing cooler climate wines, such as Pinot Noir.  The southern [...]

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TasteCamp 2010 – Experiment gone awry!

Date: Wed, May 12, 2010

I love wineries who get inventive with their tastings. Whether it’s cool flights, vintage comparisons or in this case comparisons between oak aging, it always brings out the geek in me. Unfortunately this was an experiment gone awry! Instead of one over oaked Chardonnay, this winery had three, well really four.  The cool experiment was [...]

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Virginia Wine Council Update

Date: Tue, May 11, 2010

Albemarle County Adopts Farm Winery Zoning Ordinance; Likely to Serve As Statewide Model From Matt Conrad Director of the Virginia Wine Council: “Last week the Virginia Wine Council attended the 2:00 p.m. meeting of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors.  This meeting represented an end to nearly two years of work by the VWC to [...]

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TasteCamp 2010 Day 1: Part 1

Date: Tue, May 11, 2010

Driving up the East side of Keuka Lake I was engrossed with the beauty of the Finger Lakes region, which I continued to soak in for the next three days. This drive took me to our first stop for Taste Camp 2010, Heron Hill Winery, for our first Grand Tasting and our first sample of [...]

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TasteCamp 2010 Visuals – Vineyard Walk

Date: Mon, May 10, 2010

For the vineyard walk I was selected to go to Argetsinger Vineyards and tour the vineyard with owner and manger Sam Argetsinger. Sam was a riot, a really down to earth guy that loves playing in the dirt and working with mother nature. His passion for grape growing and nature was amazingly intense and fun [...]

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TasteCamp Visuals – Day 1

Date: Sat, May 8, 2010

A full story will come later about our first day in the Finger Lakes for TasteCamp East 2010, but I figured a little visual tour would be good for this morning.

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