Albemarle Terroir

An exploration of what makes Albemarle County Virginia Wine unique


Archive for May, 2009

23rd Annual Virginia Wine and Craft Festival

Unfortunately, I can’t make it, but the 23rd Annual Virginia Wine and Craft Festival caught my eye as a particularily interesting event scheduled for this weekend, May 15.

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2008 Gabriele Rausse Chardonnay

  On Saturday, May 9th I happend to head over to the Greenwood Gourmet Grocery for a weekly wine tasting I had read about.  The tasting this week featured Gabrielle Rausse.  As  Mr. Rausse was going to be at the tasting,   I was hoping to discuss the effects of climate on his wines while [...]

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Alblemarle Terroir – An Exploration of Albemarle County, Virginia’s Wine

Welcome to Albemarle Terroir.   This Blog will be an exploration of the terroir of Albemarle County Virgina.  Albemarle County, surrounding central Virginia Counties,  and the Commonwealth of Virigina have a thriving and vibrant wine industry.  I’ll be writing about it from this platform. In George Taber’s “Judgment of Paris”, terroir is succinctly described. “Climatology, [...]

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