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Upcoming Events in Your Area
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Live Music with Jason Masi
Breaux Vineyards
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
1:00 - 5:00PM
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Live Music: Ken Wenzel
Hidden Brook Winery
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
1-5
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Sunday Music Showcase - Maddie Peri
Paradise Springs Winery
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
3pm-6pm
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Wine for Lyme
Hillsborough Vineyards
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
Love Wine, Hate Lyme?!
Join us for a Lyme Disease Awareness Benefit
Sunday, May 19, 6:00 – 9:00 pm, Hillsborough Vineyards
A fun evening of Great Wine, Beautiful Scenery, Local Food, Live Music, Raffle Prizes and a Silent Auction!
Tickets are $40 per person and includes two glasses of wine and food buffet
Proceeds support Lyme Disease Research through National Capital Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Association
For more information, email us at Wine4Lyme@yahoo.com
or visit our website www.WineForLyme.org
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE including bracelets for sale in the tasting room for $5 a piece
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Live Music: 2nd Story Band
Sunset Hills Vineyard & Winery
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
1:30pm – 4:30pm
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Vineyard Vibes: Cross Keys Concert Series
CrossKeys Vineyards & Estates
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
2:00pm - 5:00pm KAT & THE TRAVELERS
Ecstatically delivered tunes with a heaping serving of soulful vocals! Jazz, Blues & Swing and any little song we adore about losing, leaving, longing and, oh yes...love! BAND INFO HERE
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The very cool Jon Fritz
Barrel Oak Winery
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
1:00pm - 5:00pm
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Live Music: Deane Kern
868 Estate Vineyards
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Music & Wine on 9 with Brian Franke
8 Chains North Winery
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
2-4pm
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Live Music: Gary Smallwood
Barns at Hamilton Station Vineyards
From
Sunday, May 19, 2013 To Sunday, May 19, 2013
2pm-5pm
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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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Chokecherry
The common chokecherry, sometimes called the wild cherry, is found in all of the United States except the Gulf and lower Atlantic States and all but the very northern provinces of Canada. It is but one of dozens of members of the genus Prunus--which includes plums and cherries but is really the rose family--native to the United States and Canada. Chokecherries, botanically, are Prunus virginiana, but chokecherry befits them for two reasons; they are uncommonly sour and their stones (seeds) and wilted leaves contain hydrocyanic acid, which is extremely unhealthy. Growing as a shrub or small tree to 25 feet in height, it is often found along moist woodland margins, fencerows, roadsides, streambeds, and shorelines. Its smooth, often reddish-brown bark is quite distinctive. Its 3/8-inch flowers have five white, rounded petals and grow in dense, elongated clusters. The berries ripen from mid-summer to October, depending on location, as dark red to almost black. The berries are round, fleshy, 1/3 to 2/5 inch, and encase an egg-shaped stone which should be removed. When ripe, the berries are fairly juicy and popular among many birds. The only slightly toxic berry that could possibly be confused with the chokecherry is the Carolina laurelberry (Prunus caroliniana), but the chokecherry's bark and alternating, jagged-edged leaves are good identifiers.
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With breathtaking panoramic views of the Augusta wine country,
Noboleis Vineyards has 10 acres of lush vineyard on 74 acres of Augusta's rich farmland.
In 2005, Bob and Lou Ann Nolan invested in a beautiful piece of property in Augusta with dreams of starting a vineyard. One year later, four varieties of grapes were planted and a state of the art winery now produces our wine on-site. Since then, we have built Augusta's most state-of-the-art wine production facility, along with both private and public tasting rooms, including food and beverage service, and patio and hilltop tent views of our panoramic vineyards.
Truly a family run business, the Nolan family has created a place for both young and old to relax, learn, play and enjoy the rolling hillsides and bountiful vineyards which surround our unique winery.
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