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Upcoming Events in Your Area
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Third Thursday Music Series
Trump Winery
From
Thursday, June 20, 2013 To Thursday, June 20, 2013
Enjoy FREE live music in the Tasting Room from 5-7PM on the third Thursday of every month. Tastings, glass pours, and bottles of wine will be available for purchase. Come and join us on the patio beside our toasty fire pits for a relaxing night of good music and great wine!
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Tarot Card Reading & Wine Tasting
Crossing Vineyards & Winery
From
Thursday, June 20, 2013 To Thursday, June 20, 2013
"Wine & Spirits" Tarot Card Reading & Wine Tasting
At Crossing Vineyards & Winery, 1853 Wrightstown Rd, Washington Crossing, PA
Thursday, June 20, 7:00 pm
Get together with your friends for a fun "Ladies Night Out." Enjoy wine tasting, dessert and a private Tarot Card reading. Space is limited. Reservations are a must.
Cost: $35 per person. Must be 21 or older to participate. For entertainment purposes only.
Call 215-493-6500, ext. 19 or buy on-line: www.crossingvineyards.com. Email: info@crossingvineyards.com
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Friday: Movie Night at Veramar Vineyard Brought to you by the “Magic Lantern Theater”
Veramar Vineyard
From
Friday, June 21, 2013 To Friday, June 21, 2013
7pm Cost $8.00
Get ready for some great entertainment under the stars at Veramar. Bring your blankets & lawn chairs for this fun filled night. Movie starts at dusk, bring your own picnic or we will have light fare available for purchase (and of course wine!). (Movie admission is $8 payable to Magic Lantern Theater, a non-profit organization)
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Summer Wine & Music Series
Crossing Vineyards & Winery
From
Friday, June 21, 2013 To Friday, June 21, 2013
Summer Wine & Music Series at Crossing Vineyards & Winery.
1853 Wrightstown Road, Washington Crossing, PA
Friday, June 21, 7PM.
Performing: The Fabulous Greaseband.
Cost: $10 in advance, $15 at gate. Bring a Lawn Chair. Wine & cheese available for purchase. No outside beverage permitted. New this season: made-to-order pizzas available from the "Pizza Wagon".
Call for reservations 215-493-6500, ext. 19 or buy on-line: www.crossingvineyards.com. Email: info@crossingvineyards.com.
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Friday Evening in Paradise - Sarah Swanner
Paradise Springs Winery
From
Friday, June 21, 2013 To Friday, June 21, 2013
5pm-9pm
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“Fruit Set” Vineyard Tour”
Hiddencroft Vineyards
From
Friday, June 21, 2013 To Friday, June 21, 2013
Join our winemaker for an informative walking tour of the vineyard. Wine tasting and barbecue dinner included. $25/person or $19/person for Case Club Members. Please contact us by e-mail or telephone to make your reservation. Rain date for this event is June 23rd (Sunday) from 2PM-6PM.
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Featured Band: Junker Grain
Lost Rhino Brewing Co.
From
Friday, June 21, 2013 To Friday, June 21, 2013
8pm
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Live Music - Michael Stephenson
Valerie Hill Vineyard & Winery
From
Friday, June 21, 2013 To Friday, June 21, 2013
6:00pm to 9:00pm
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Music on the Deck: Jon Fritz
Naked Mountain Vineyard
From
Saturday, June 22, 2013 To Saturday, June 22, 2013
2pm until 5pm
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Vine Rewind Wine, Music & Art Festival
Linganore Winecellars
From
Saturday, June 22, 2013 To Sunday, June 23, 2013
The newest of the Linganore wine festivals will attract thousands of Linganore wine lovers, music fans, friends and families to picturesque Linganore Winecellars in the Mt. Airy, Maryland, just 39 miles from Baltimore/ Washington DC. At the 2nd annual Vine Rewind festival, guests can sample 19 featured Linganore wines- including the 2012 Best in Class Gold Medal Winner, Traminette- and take tours of their eco-friendly wine-making facility.
Rewind to your favorite decades-dance and sing along to hits from the past. Linganore brings 4 different bands to the festival to provide this trip down memory lane. Saturday, join The Leslie Avenue Band, https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Leslie-Avenue-Band/127904707279590?group_id=0, and Spiral, www.spiralband.net/, in the good times and Sunday rock out with All Natural, www.allnaturalband.com/, and the East- Coast premier 80’s tribute band, The Reagan Years, www.thereaganyears.com. Vendors will be selling handcrafted goods, fine art, delicious food and more.
The festival grounds open at 10am and music is from 12noon-6pm. Tickets are $20 for Adults 21+ and $15 for designated drivers or Activity Military (with valid id). Discounted tickets can be purchased in advance through Mdtix, www.mdtix.com/linganore. Linganore Winecellars is located at 13601 Glissans Mill Rd, Mt. Airy, MD 21771.
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WineCompass.com - a Tradex Consulting company
Vienna, Virginia
Fax: 703-991-2548
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32nd Vintage Virginia
From Saturday, June 01, 2013 To Sunday, June 02, 2013. Tickets on sale now! Join us on Saturday June 1st and Sunday June 2nd, 2013 for the 32nd Vintage Virginia, featuring the Commonwealth’s best wine, food and music each year during a fun-filled festival at Bull Run Park Special Events Center. This year’s Vintage promises to be the best in decades, with an emphasis on Virginian cuisine, showcased by free daily cooking demonstrations by TOP CHEFS from across the country!
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Hefe Weizen
Weizen bier is a top fermenting beer style that originates from southern Germany, particularly Bavaria, and is brewed with at least 50% wheat in the mash. Hefe weizens are refreshing, highly carbonated beers ideal for quenching summer thirsts. They undergo secondary fermentation, often in the bottle, and the yeast strains used for this purpose impart a spicy, clove-like flavor. Hefe (the German word for yeast) on the label denotes that the bottle contains yeast sediment.
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Furnace Mountain Vineyard? 8 Chains North? "LoCo" Vino? Col. White? What are all these enigmatic names and why are they relevant? Well, they are probably only relevant to a very few! First, Furnace Mountain Vineyard: this is the name of a mountain in the Catoctin Mountains where I lived and is very near to the farm where my vineyard is actually planted. I like this name because it evokes the image of what this vineyard is all about. Without any start-up capital and very little labor except my own and my father’s, everything has been earned by hard work and sheer determination. Learn more about Furnace Mountain. Second, 8 Chains North: this is in reference to the site where the vineyard is actually planted . My sister and her husband own what is perhaps the most beautiful, dynamic and diverse farm in Virginia; it is several hundred acres on the banks of the Potomac River. They have been generous enough to allow me to plant my vineyard on their farm, which is actually a very historic site. During the Civil War, the Confederate engineers made a river crossing used by the Army of Northern Virginia. The site of this crossing is on my sister’s farm and is 1.8 chains (a chain is approximately 66 feet) upriver of one of Col. White’s (a native Leesburger and Confederate officer) river fields. Learn more about a "chain" as a unit of measurement, and learn more about Col. White. Third, "LoCo" Vino: this is a nod to the county of Loudoun. We love our LoCo Vino and believe it is a fine representation of the quality of wine that is being produced in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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