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The inaugural Virginia Wine Expo seemed to be a success, if the thousands in attendance on the first of the two-day event were any measure.
“What really impressed the tasters was the vintage,” Luca Paschina tells me, sitting in Palladio, the elegant restaurant at Barboursville Vineyards.
They were, to quote The Maltese Falcon, the stuff that dreams are made of—several bottles of wine discovered hidden…
Think of the connection between wine and money like that between manhood and penis size: Whether you buy into the myth, or stridently reject it, you still want to know how big it is.
Until very recently, buying wine in Charlottesville was relatively peaceful and, with the exception of the recent statewide flap over winery self-distribution, undisturbed. It worked the way it does everywhere else in the country, operating under the Byzantine, three-tier system of selling alcohol (a throwback to Prohibition), whereby the wineries must sell to distributors, who […]
I will admit from the outset that I don’t understand the modern way of appreciating wine.