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Gum Springs is a community in Fairfax County in Hybla Valley along Route 1 (Richmond Highway). The African American community, the oldest in the county, [ 1 ] was established in 1833 by West Ford , a freedman who had been manumitted by Hannah Bushrod Washington (widow of John Augustine Washington ), in 1805.
The Cape wine estate of Constantia brought world wine to South Africa for their Muscat wines. In 1679 Simon van der Stel was appointed to succeed van Riebeeck as governor of the Cape Colony. Against Dutch East India Company regulations he orchestrated a deal for a land grant near Table Mountain for a 750-hectare (1,900-acre) estate – a grant ...
Gum Spring is an unincorporated community in Louisa County, Virginia, United States. Gum Spring is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 250 and U.S. Route 522 18 miles (29 km) south-southeast of Louisa .
In addition to port-style wine, South African wine makers also produce "sherry-style" wines produced in a solera system and a unique vin de liqueur made from Muscat known as Jerepigo (or Jerepiko). With Jerepigo , the brandy is added to the must prior to fermentation, which leaves the wine with a residual sugar (RS) level of at least 160 grams ...
African Children’s Choir to perform in New Bedford. The African Children’s Choir will be performing at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 47 S. 6th St., New Bedford, on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m.
Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in Victoria Park, Hong Kong. A harvest festival is an annual celebration which occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. . Given regional differences in climates and crops, harvest festivals can be found at various times throughout the wo
The Wine Festival (1865, Albert Anker, Switzerland) The costume of Dolní Němčí in Uherské Hradiště, the Czech Republic. Annual wine festivals celebrate viticulture and usually occur after the harvest of the grapes which, in the northern hemisphere, generally falls at the end of September and runs until well into October or later.
The Sadie Family is a South African producer of wine located in the Swartland region. Following the emergence of flagship wines Columella and Palladius, winemaker Eben Sadie has been described as an enfant terrible, South Africa's first certified celebrity winemaker, and by supporters as "one of the greatest and most original winemakers in the southern hemisphere".