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Latest Winery Visits

Valley Road Vineyards (added Aug 26, 2024)
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Latest Wine Journal Entries

Soda Rock Winery (written Feb 05, 2025)
Wine: 4 stars Winery: 4 stars Ambiance: 4 stars
The original Soda Rock Winery building, which burned down a few years ago, was the site for the first bonded California winery. What a nice cross section of Cab Franc, Primitivo, Syrah and Petite Syrah wines are to be explored here. Our gift bottle of 2021 Alexander Valley Twisted Rail Cabernet Sauvignon has already been ascribed with high commendations.

Valley Road Vineyards (written Aug 26, 2024)
Wine: 3 stars Winery: 4 stars Ambiance: 5 stars
1st impression: 5 star setting with placement of winery layout, tasting room, outdoor seating and hillside ambience. 2nd impression was confusion of flight tastings. Luckily, our host picked up quickly on our wanting only to try three out of the eighteen wines (2023 Albarino, 2022 Cabernet Franc and 2020 Petit Verdot). The different flights were charged at the same price and the pours were most generous. This is a unique setting for an operation which is only 8 years old. The wines were too young to truly be able to reflect on where they are headed in the years to come. We are glad that we made this mountain like winery stop in the Virginia hillsides.

Veritas Winery (written Aug 26, 2024)
Wine: 3 stars Winery: 4 stars Ambiance: 5 stars
We had visited this vineyard fourteen years ago and were expecting winery and wine changes. The beautiful hillside setting was undisturbed, but the wines had not significantly developed in expression(s) over the years. Five of their wines had been named as Virginia Governor’s Cup Gold Medal Winners, but their tastes did not align to our expectations. We went for the wines, but enjoyed mostly sitting comfortably on their covered deck listening to a delightful solo guitarist.

Afton Mountain Vineyards (written Aug 26, 2024)
Wine: 4 stars Winery: 5 stars Ambiance: 5 stars
The setting was superb and a joy to find deep in the hillsides near Afton, VA. Here you have a $25 closed tasting fight menu with five per-selected wines or wines by the glass ($12-$18). Of course, the third option is buying bottles ($28-$70) of which you may have tasted a few or you have to buy others in the blind. We were happy to purchase an exceptional tasted 2022 Gewurztraminer, a lucky sip T’19 Bordeaux style blend (Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Sauvignon) and a 2019 Tannat in the blind. Crossing our fingers for this wine coming from a well respected established winery.

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