September 2007 Archives

The wine-growers of Virginia bravely grasped the nettle of introducing Virginia wines to the British market by holding their first overseas wine-tasting in London in May 2007. While California, Washington & Oregon and upstate New York are well-known as exporters of U.S. wines, your wine correspondent Lovat Stephen must confess that wine-growing did not rank high in his knowledge of this Mid-Atlantic state on the east coast.