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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
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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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Clinton
This relatively unknown American hybrid, derived from Vitis riparia and labrusca, is still grown in some vineyards in the northeastern United States and a few acres in northeast Italy (although it is not a permitted variety). Clinton is a hardy vine with good disease resistance, and notably is immune to phylloxera. The vine yields dark-skinned berries with good acidity, and produces deeply-colored wines with a distinctively ‘foxy’ flavor.
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The area called Pritchard Hill lies in the Vaca Mountains just east of the valley floor vineyards of Rutherford and Oakville, and south east of Lake Hennessey (constructed in 1946). Although well known for its vineyards (including Cloud View, Chappellet, Martin, Bryant Family, Harrison, Long Family, Colgin, and David Arthur), Pritchard Hill is not an official AVA. The USGS topographic map labels a precise point as Pritchard Hill but now the name refers to the general area. Interestingly, the USGS point is not on the summit, about 1500 ft.elevation, but on a slope-platform at about 650 ft. In the 1870s, when the Pritchard family grew grapes here, Lake Hennessey did not exist. From the floor of Conn Valley (now at the bottom of the lake) the “Hill” probably seemed higher. The Pritchard’s neighbors in the 19th century, the Conns and the Sages, also grew grapes in the valley and left their names on today’s landmarks—Conn Dam and Sage Canyon Road.
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