Washington Post Food Editor Joe Yonan – known in my house as “your boss” – walks the walk of the locavore/locapour issue in his “Quick Bites” feature on NBC-4 this week. Joe tastes some of the wines from the new Virginia wine page at Blue Duck Tavern, one of DC’s most avidly locavore restaurants, and one I mentioned in my feature on local wines and local wine lists
in yesterday’s Food section. If I knew how to embed the video here, I
would, but we’ll have to settle for the link to the station’s website.
Nice shoutouts here for Rappahannock Cellars and Boxwood Winery.
Dave McIntyre's WineLine 
Dear Dave,
I’m saddened to hear via The Wine Curmudgeon that some snobby wine
drinker sent you a negative e-mail about Virginia wines. As Virginia
wine lovers for 30 years, my husband and I have tasted our way through
the evolution of Virginia wines, from less than 20 wineries to the 160
of today. We hosted an annual Virginia tasting in July to educate
members of our wine club in Lynchburg, Va., about how good Virginia
wines could be. Once we moved to Salem, Va., we started the Roanoke
Valley Wine Tastemasters and did the same. I’m sure if he or she would
only get over that prejudice, your e-mail writer could find plenty of
Virginia wines to like at Vintage Virginia or other wine festivals in
Virginia throughout the year.
You know, my first impression of Virginia wine, more than 20 years
ago, was not exactly favorable. But I had friends who kept telling me
they were good, so I kept trying them. And of course, it helps to have
an open mind. People whotqsted local wines a long time ago and didnt
like them dont have to admit they were wrong. They only have to
praise The winemakers for improving. Its time to swallow their pride
and sip some wine.
You have lucky friends, Meg. Thanks for commenting.
We are very grateful for the support for ourselves and our Virginia
colleagues as always, thank you for reposting!