Reply to Recommend your Virginia winery

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "Recommend your Virginia winery"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None have good wine. Agree with Bluemont on scenery. [/quote]

This isn’t true - it’s just something inexperienced/small minded people like to repeat to give the aura of snootiness.  But many/most don’t serve food or full meals.

Early Mountain has food but you’d have to come through Afton gap and up from Cville for it to be on the way back from Hot Springs.

Glen Manor has great wine
Linden has great wine
Crimson Lane has great wine and some food (book ahead)
RdV (named something new recently) has great wine and some food (book ahead)
Capstone has good wine

Another good option closer to Hot Springs is Maude and the Bear in Staunton (not a vineyard)

Closer to the DC end of your trip: Vault and Cellar in Middletown VA… also not a vineyard.

Also, Bluemont isn’t really close to your route home.

And, pippin hill has great food and a few of their bottles are pretty good, too.  [/quote]

The VA Dept. of Tourism has entered the chat.   :roll:

For those of us who have traveled many time to N. Calf., and have family living there (who lived previously here), the VA and MD wineries, while fun to go to, don't exactly compete on taste or views.  It is not small-minded (what?) or inexperience (again, what?) to express that opinion.    I enjoy going out locally, but I am not kidding myself that what I am tasting is just as good.  [/quote]

And the CA Dept of Tourism has entered the chat.  :roll:  :roll:

For those of us who have traveled many times to France, Spain, Italy, Chile, and New Zealand, and have family who live in every one of those countries, the CA wineries are quaint, but don't exactly compare to the hundred-years old estates that we are used to.  Because really, how can one region's wine be good when there is another region that is better?  How silly to think that there might actually be one (or, gasp, two??) places in these inferior regions that might have good wine and nice views.  Nah, just write off the entire state, that seems easier.[/quote]

I’d venture a guess most of these posters have gone to Barrel Oak or Bluemont and never tried to find good wine.  And have now concluded there’s no good wine in the entire state.[/quote]

I'd also venture a guess that if most of these posters were given a blind taste test of better VA wines alongside other regions, they would not be able to identify the VA wine.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics