wine tourism

Tasting on the Monticello Wine Trail

Posted on October 20, 2009 by vcuspoon

This weekend (Sunday & Monday) the wife and I met up with Frank Morgan of drinkwhatulike.com and Dezel Quillen of myvinespot.com for some Monticello wine tasting. We went to Mountfair Vineyards, Pollak Winery, King Family, Delfosse and Blenheim and had a fantastic time. We met with winemakers and/or vineyard managers at all places and got [...]

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Tasting Virginia Wine Country with Gadino Cellars

Posted on September 14, 2009 by vcuspoon

It was a beautiful weekend in Virginia this weekend, and Sunday was a great day to enjoy Virginia Wine Country. We started out with a trip to Gadino Cellars, in Rappahanock County. It had been a few years since our last visit, so we figured it would be good to revisit their offerings. Gadino Cellars [...]

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Virginia Wine in the news

Posted on September 2, 2009 by vcuspoon

In a recent article on CNN’s travel site titled 4 Wine Country Contenders, Virginia was named as a hot spot for wine travel. Specifically mentioned was the Charlottesville area and the wineries that dot the countryside in the Monticello AVA. Article Excerpt – “Virginia’s premier wine country, dotted with working farms and over 1,000 acres [...]

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Virginia Wine Tasting Weekend – Day 1

Posted on May 27, 2009 by vcuspoon

If you have been following me on Twitter or Facebook, you probably know that Megan and I were up in Northern Virginia Wine Country for the past few days. We visited a total of 9 wineries over the weekend, 6 of which were completely new to me (this was actually part of the point of [...]

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Wine and Art – A Great Combination

Posted on January 14, 2008 by vcuspoon

Wine and art are a great combination for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, wine is one of my passions and my wife is by passion and schooling an artist (she got her Master of Fine Arts in sculpture and photography). Second, wine is a work of art in itself, a delicious liquid that [...]

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Fun With A Google Search

Posted on January 7, 2008 by vcuspoon

Today, I thought it would be fun to put the word winery into a Google search and see what the #1 link is after the search.  Now of course I have put the word winery into Google before, but never all by its lonesome.  So I typed in winery, hit enter, and the top return [...]

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Posted on August 19, 2006 by vcuspoon

Wines & Times All you winery visitors out there need to check out this great site that helps keep you informed on wineries in almost all 50 states. Just click on the state and it will show you how many wineries there are in that state, then click on a winery, and depending on what [...]

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