The latest issue of the Grape Press is out! Be sure to check out the articles on hybrids, dealing with SWD, updates from each region, and experimenting with "Whale's Tail" removal and kicker canes. Spring 2015 Grape Press (pdf)
Woodstock-based Muse's Bordeaux-styled Red Blend Scores Best Amongst Almost 400 Entries from 94 Wineries~ RICHMOND - Governor Terry McAuliffe tonight awarded the Virginia Wineries Association's (VWA) 2015 Governor's Cup to Muse Vineyards for their 2009 Clio, a Bordeaux-style blended red wine. The Governor's Cup was awarded at the VWA's Governor's Cup Gala held at the John Marshall Hotel. This is the first Governor's Cup for Muse Vineyard, based in the Town of Woodstock in Shenandoah County. Speaking at the Governor's Cup awards ceremony, Governor McAuliffe said, "I am honored to present this year's award to Muse Vineyards for their 2009 Clio. [...]
The VVA is pleased to announce that as a benefit of VVA membership, you are eligible for a 10% discount on all conference registration options at the Eastern Winery Exposition taking place March 17-19th at the Oncenter in Syracuse, NY. All conference registration include free trade show admission but the discount doesn't count for a la carte food functions. The Eastern Winery Exposition is an Eastern-focused wine industry trade show and conference designed to provide the Eastern U.S. and Canadian wineries and vineyards with an easily accessible, low-cost professional meeting with a large number of winery and vineyard suppliers, at the [...]
Member, Stephen Bozzo, of Bozzo Family Vineyards, brought this short useful article, on wine shipment laws in the US, to our attention and we are passing it along. Link: Wine Shipping
We've got a great line up! Check out our list of Speakers and Panelists for the 2015 meeting. Haven't registered yet? Click here to go to our online registration.
The most recent issue of the VVA Grape Press is out! Highlights include articles on Building a Consistent Supply of Virginia Grapes, Making Virginia Vineyards Profitable, Promoting Sustainable Viticulture and much more. Winter 2014 Grape Press
Specialists with Virginia Tech’s AHS Jr. AREC and local Virginia Cooperative Extension agents will conduct two commercial viticulture pruning workshops in January. These workshops will involve classroom style presentations followed by guided practice in the vineyard. Both programs will provide a review of the fundamentals of dormant pruning. Moving to the vineyard we will then focus on pruning strategies for vines with winter injury and crown gall where trunk-renewal and retraining are necessary to compensate for injury sustained in the 2013/2014 winter. There will be two meetings! Meeting #1 When: January 19th 2015 (Central Virginia) @11:30am Where: Democracy Vineyards http://democracyvineyards.com/ 585 [...]
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A marketing opportunity for wineries and vineyards, this twitter event has over 50 wine and food bloggers and writers are registered to participate. Wine producers featured in the multimedia documentary VINTAGE 2014: the stories behind the vines will gather on Twitter for the online premiere of three short films that follow their vineyards through the 2014 vintage. The focus of the conversation will be a retrospective of the 2014 wine grape growing season. “My aim is to demystify the perceived pretentiousness of wine by bringing to light the agricultural aspects of winemaking,” said Wil Fernandez, Producer and Director of VINTAGE 2014. [...]
Dear Wine and Tourism Association Friends, We are hot off the wine trail of the 2014 Wine Tourism Conference that recently concluded in the sophisticated wine hamlet of Paso Robles, CA in San Luis Obispo County. Almost 200 wine tour operators, tourism associations, winery alliances, wineries, sponsors, and media participated in the conference. We enjoyed two full days of program content related to the ever-growing world of wine tourism as well as a day of optional, pre-conference Workshops. The conversation was lively and the learning robust! And not to mention the breadth and depth of the wines represented from wine regions [...]
