Roaming Virginia

Are you as into Virginia Wine as I am?  Then you might want to consider attending the Drink Local Wine Conference in Loudoun,VA on April 24-26.   Registration opened yesterday and it is only $65 for the weekend. I looked at the schedule and they’ve got some interesting panels set up.  Based on the Twitter buzz, [...]

You may have heard of a little snow storm that hit the DC area this weekend….The Blizzard of 2010, the Snowpocalypse, Snowmaggedon. But whatever you call it, I was snowed in Friday night and Saturday.   Best way to spend a snowy weekend in my opinion*?  Curled up with a good book (currently reading The Long [...]

In honor of Virginia Wine Month and the weekly Twitter lovefest #FollowFriday, I wanted to share with you some bloggers who write about Virginia Wine that I read regularly.  Some of these bloggers  write exclusively about Virginia wine and others write about Virginia wine on occasion, but all of them have great content that I [...]

October is  Virginia Wine Month and to kick off the month in style, the Virginia Tourism Board invited me to a wine tasting and Tweet-Up called Vintage Tweets.  I’m going to have a full recap of the event in the next few days (in the meantime you can check out the tweets at #vawinemonth).  Today [...]

Golf flag leaning against a tree on the Devils Backbone Golf Course at Wintergreen Resort.

Tony and Elizabeth Smith are the new owners of Afton Mountain Vineyards and were kind enough to do any e-mail interview with me about Afton Mountain, why they decided to purchase a vineyard and their future plans for the winery.

Afton Mountain Vineyards is known for its delicate wines with some unique varietals that you don’t find too many other places in Virginia, like Sangiovese and Gewurtaminer. Check out my review of the winery on Roaming Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson’s vision of Virginia as a wine producing region came to fruition more than 200 years after his death, but I think that he would have been proud of the 20-some vineyards that have grown in the AVA bearing the name of his beloved home.  Some of the oldest and best vineyards in Virginia [...]

Now that summer is upon us, I’ve gone on a buying spree for delicious white wines to drink during the hot and humid Virginia summers.  I recently picked up a Rose, a Vinho Verde, and a bottle of Virginia Viognier.
You may be thinking Viog…what?  Viognier is a wine varietal like Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc that [...]