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Celebrating #VAWineChat 50 and Founder Frank Morgan

Celebrating #VAWineChat 50 and Founder Frank Morgan

Photo courtesy of Frank Morgan and #VAWineChat

Those of you who have been following my writing for the past seven years know that I am relatively new to the wine industry and wine writing world. My first “wine moment” was in 2008. A couple of years later, I visited my first Virginia winery, and in 2011, I attended my first Wine Bloggers Conference held in Charlotteville, Virginia. It was at that…

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#VAWineChat with Stone Tower Winery

#VAWineChat with Stone Tower Winery

In late September 2017, shortly before the Northern California wildfires threw my life into a bit of a tailspin, only to be topped by an unexpected career change at the end of the year, I had the opportunity to participate in #VAWineChat, led by Frank Morgan of Drink What YOU Like and Stone Tower Winery. Situated on 75 acres in the rolling hills of Hogback Mountain in Loudoun County, Virginia,…

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A rose by any other name

A rose by any other name

The Trump Winery Lineup

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ~ Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

2008 SP (Sparkling) Blanc de Blanc

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Welcome Home: #VAWineChat with Early Mountain Vineyards!

Ready for #VAWineChat with Early Mountain Vineyards

Virginia is the state I call my second home. I spent 24 years there, most of them without knowing about Virginia wine. It was around 2010 when I became aware of it, when I first visited my closest winery, Abingdon Vineyard & Winery. When I would travel around the state for conferences, I would try to find a Virginia wine or beer to taste. In…

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