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Six judges convened on Monday, June 14, at Barboursville Vineyards for this year’s Monticello Wine Cup competition. Their task was to blindly taste 60 wines from the Monticello AVA (the […]

 The six students and at least as many volunteers arrived at the farm around 9am, and were cut loose with borrowed and donated digital cameras. “The idea was to get […]

Para Coffee is growing. Or outgrowing, as the case may be.

In this town, the tapas fad has outlasted even some local restaurants. One West Main eatery, though, is working to buck the trend.

 Sitting in her newly christened tasting room, Penny Martin says “she’s starting to learn to like” wine. 

“I picked up something in Bhutan that I haven’t been able to kick,” the photographer Steve Winter said last week. By the time we were done speaking, it was unclear […]

When Ryan DeRamus opened Random Row Books last fall, he didn’t have a clear vision for the space, about half of which is occupied by bookshelves and couches, so he […]

When opportunity knocks, Karen Laetare answers. 

In our minds, they’re as inevitable a duo as Adam and Eve. But are wine and cheese always meant to be? 

 Hello, summer A bounty of pleasant garden tasks spills out of June’s bosomy embrace. Enjoy it before the hellish days of July have us scurrying for the slightest bit of […]