Category Archives: Local Wine

Wine doesn’t Trump politics …

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Dave McIntyre

Our nation’s politics have gone sour, like wine left exposed too long to oxygen. A case in point: My column this week in The Washington Post Food section takes a look at Trump Winery, near Charlottesville. I conceived the article as an … Continue reading →

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Drinking Local with The Wine Curmudgeon

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Dave McIntyre

My wife and I had the pleasure last week of hosting Jeff Siegel, aka The Wine Curmudgeon, while he was in DC judging a preliminary round of the 2015 Virginia Governor’s Cup wine competition. (Jeff posted his impressions of the … Continue reading →

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Catch-Up News: Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard Changes Hands

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

I’ve been so busy the past several weeks that I’ve neglected this blog. So here’s catching up on a few things, especially some news that I let slip: Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyards has been sold. Sugarloaf was established a decade ago on … Continue reading →

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Fifty Years of American Winemaking, All in One Hour on October 29

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History is 50 years old this year. As part of the birthday celebrations, the museum’s food and wine history project will host a discussion of “Fifty Years of American Winemaking” on Wednesday, October … Continue reading →

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Drink Local Wine Week: Texas Tempranillo

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

In her Financial Times column and on her website this week, Jancis Robinson describes how Tempranillo has in the last 25 years or so become the third-most planted grape in the world, in terms of acreage, after Cabernet Sauvignon and … Continue reading →

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This Year’s Vintage Didn’t Begin With Bud Break

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

Harvest has begun, not just in California but also here in the East. We think of a vine’s growing season as bud break to harvest, but the 2014 vintage throughout much of the United States has been shaped and even … Continue reading →

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Michigan’s Varietal Variety

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

My recent visit to the Old Mission and Leelanau peninsulas in northwest Michigan led to me Lansing, where I helped judge the 37th annual Michigan wine competition. Michigan’s emergence into our wine consciousness seems too recent for the state to … Continue reading →

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50 States of Wine – Le Metro Underground Goes Cross Country

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

Earlier this year, after I wrote about the difficulty of finding the so-called “New California” wines, I was introduced to Aaron Epstein, a San Diego-based entrepreneur and new father who operates Le Metro. Wine. Underground, a subscription direct-to-consumer retailer. To use … Continue reading →

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DC Chefs Love Virginia Wine

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

(In the “Trying to catch up on really good blog material I haven’t had time to post” department … ) Virginia wine has gotten some prominent loving recently from two of DC’s top toques. Robert Wiedmaier, chef-owner of Marcel’s, Brabo, … Continue reading →

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The Grape American Road Trip

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Dave McIntyre

This post is especially for Washington D.C.-area readers. Andrew Stover, known to wine lovers around the region for his advocacy of wines from unexpected places around the country, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his Vino50 portfolio with “The Grape … Continue reading →

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