On a sunny, breezy Sunday morning in late April, Mary Ames is paying for her membership in the Loving Cup Wine Club, but not by credit card or cash. Instead, she is dusting the roots of about-to-be-planted vines with an organic fungicide. “Without this, the roots would not thrive,” Ames says, as she sprinkles a […]
On a sunny, breezy Sunday morning in late April, Mary Ames is paying for her membership in the Loving Cup Wine Club, but not by credit card or cash. Instead, she is dusting the roots of about-to-be-planted vines with an organic fungicide. “Without this, the roots would not thrive,” Ames says, as she sprinkles a […]
Ready to pick some grapes? Awesome. But before you tap the date into your iCalendar, there’s something those feisty, ripening clusters want you to know: Your schedule means nothing to them. “One year we picked vidal with a 30-minute advance notice,” says Karl Hambsch, the winemaker at Loving Cup Winery in North Garden. “When I […]