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Head just a half hour outside Charlottesville to Afton, Virginia, where you can grab a table outside at Veritas Vineyards and Winery to sample their Petit Verdot, Chardonnay, or expertly crafted ...
In the early 1900s, Charlottesville's Monticello Wine Company and its Virginia Claret Wine were so well-regarded that the city declared itself to be "the Capital of the Wine Belt in Virginia." [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Grape production increased until 1925 at which time there was a major reduction in vine and wine production throughout Virginia coupled ...
The Shenandoah Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and West Virginia. The valley is bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachian and Allegheny Plateaus to the west. Most of the AVA is in Virginia, with a small portion in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
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My pick: Central Virginia Wine Country Best time to visit: spring, so you can enjoy warm weather, multiple wine festivals, food events, and outdoor adventures. Known for: merlot, cabernet franc ...
An Act was passed to "stimulate the cultivation of the vineyard proposing that £500 be given as a premium to any persons producing the best wine in a quantity no less than 10 hogshead." Wine production was nationally acknowledged as early in the 1840 national census. By 1889, the area's principal wine grapes were Concord, Virginia Norton and ...
Appalachian High Country is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located mainly in North Carolina with sections in Tennessee and Virginia.The approximately 2,400 square miles (1,536,000 acres) viticultural area encompasses all or portions of the following counties: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, and Watauga Counties in North Carolina; Carter County and Johnson Counties in Tennessee; and ...
Following is an incomplete list of wineries and vineyards in Virginia, United States. As of 2019 there are over 250 registered vineyards and wineries in the state ...