Posts Tagged ‘wine’
Posted by Eunice / Monday, June 27th, 2011
To-The-Point Pours
By Warren Rojas
J Vineyards Russian Valley Pinot Noir ($15); www.jwine.com
Dear up-and-coming winemakers: Our humble Libation Sleuths can’t stress enough that a less-is-more philosophy can and will get you noticed in a marketplace crowded with overly adulterated imitators.
“I have a love-hate relationship with Chateauneuf-du-Pape,” Jake Parrott readily admits, characterizing the wide array of source material, viticultural styles and cookie-cutter expressions as a recipe that’s enabled far too many to flood the market with middling, but commercially successful results, for far too long.
“Most of the wines that come to the States from Chateauneuf are blowsy, alcoholic, woody, or all three,” he warns. “Many of those wines get HUGE POINTS from The Points Guy. Well, that’s all well and good for The Points Guy, but I want my wines bright, lithe and tasting of something other than fruit and wood.”
During a recent outing to Trummer’s on Main, Parrott found just what he was looking for in a pair of fully realized Papes.
Parrott hails the 2007 Xavier Vignon Chateauneuf-du-Pape Blanc ($35) as a richly textured production. “It’s a Southern Rhone white, so it’s not shy, but the alcohol is relatively restrained, as is the wood,” he suggests, trumpeting the flashes of “rich pear fruit” and “a little Roussanne wax” as flavors to look forward to.
“Drink this with your in-season scallops, shrimp or trout,” he advises.
Milking even more magic from the same region, Parrott taps the 2006 Domaine Bois de Boursan Chateauneuf-du-Pape Rouge ($48) as a perennial favorite. “Wild berries are infused with an intense blood-and-mineral core,” he says, stressing, “This is insanely mineral.”
Kelly Magyarics found similar inspiration, just much closer to home.
She hails the 2009 J Vineyards California Pinot Gris ($15) as a welcome change from unnecessarily cluttered competitors. “J’s pinot gris is perfect for the wine drinker who prefers a cleaner, crisper style of white wine (i.e., not an oak bomb) but may be turned off recently by the overtly tropical notes and sweetness of some New Zealand and California sauvignon blancs,” she counsels. “It’s unoaked, with stone fruit, tangerine and lime, and a hint of vanilla and honey.”
Magyarics recommends breaking it out the next time fish tacos hit the grill, pitching it as the perfect complement to chipotle dressing.
If your palate craves complexity, Magyarics recommends kicking back with a glass of 2008 J Vineyards Russian River Valley Pinot Noir ($35).
“Though J produces eight pinots—many of them single vineyard—this one, sourced with fruit from throughout the Russian River Valley, has Über-sip-appeal,” she posits, touting scents of “raspberry, blackberry” plus “flavors of cocoa and a hint of spice on the finish.”
“This is not an overly extracted pinot but one that has elegance and balance (the two words that describe J’s winemaking philosophy, by the way …),” Magyarics gushes. “2008 was a bit of a tight vintage, so this will just continue to evolve in the bottle.”
(June 2011)
Happy Hour: PJ Skidoos Is The Funniest Bar
Posted by Lorin Drinkard / Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
It’s been a long, gross week—with the never-ending commuter traffic, summer tourists standing left on the Metro and other shoe-related incidents, not to mention the uber-sticky weather conditions (gee, warm and muggy?).
It’s about time to have a little fun[ny] in our week.
Image: Shutterstock/ Yuri Arcurs
That’s where comedian Matt White and the Seriously Clowning Comedy Group come into the picture. They’re bringing their hilarious improv/stand up routine (appropriately titled “Summer Laughing”) to happy hour tonight at PJ Skidoos. Enjoy $2 draft beers and $2.50 glasses of wine and well drinks while munching on appetizers (many are only $4.99) from 4 to 8 p.m. before the show.
It’s free to get in, and doors open at 7:45 for the show, which will be located in the dance floor area. Mr. “Whitey” White will start the jokes at 8:30.
PJ Skidoos
9908 Fairfax Boulevard
Fairfax, VA 22030
703.591.4515
http://www.pjskidoos.com/
HH: 4 to 8 p.m.
Comedy show: 8:30 p.m. (no cover or ticket needed)
Drink specials: From $2
- Lorin Drinkard
Wine Kitchen to Cross the River
Posted by Warren Rojas / Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Wine Kitchen co-founder Jason Miller is exporting his award-winning brand to Frederick this fall–and he’s tapped a VOLT vet to help him do so.
Miller didn’t have much by way of design specifics, hinting only that the sister restaurant to his original wine bar/bistro in Leesburg would take up residence in “downtown Frederick” later this year.
But he did share that the kitchen will be helmed by VOLT alumnus Adam Harvey.
“We are very excited to have him [Adam] join us in our new venture,” he said of the well-seasoned new hire.
Miller suggested that the Frederick shop–”It is an up and coming food and wine destination that already has some really great restaurants. We hope to join the scene there and offer something unique to the area,” he said of the northern expansion–would likely adhere to the same small plates and artisan winemakers model, but with totally fresh and different interpretations.
VOLT chef/founder Bryan Voltaggio, who is in the process of doing a little empire building of his own in historic Frederick, sounded genuinely excited about the potential competition.
“I welcome that fact that he’s going to be my neighbor,” Voltaggio said, offering nothing but praise for Harvey, a constant presence in the VOLT kitchen from August 2008 till earlier this spring (Harvey’s younger brother, Evan, is still at VOLT). “I congratulate him on commanding a new kitchen.”
A Frederick native, Voltaggio seems pleased by the hospitality boom he’s helped usher into his hometown. “We’re not popping up restaurants overnight here in Frederick. But we are opening new ones rather than closing’em,” he posited.
But he also held out hope that other restaurateurs might still come, and that greater dining diversity would eventually follow.
“I think I always knew the people here were looking for more choices,” Voltaggio suggested.
Miller couldn’t agree more.
That’s why Leesburg’s Wine Kitchen is prepping a new lunch menu–poised to debut next month–tentatively set to offer gourmet updates ranging from a reimagined Cobb salad, to local sirloin-laden steak and cheeses to tuna burger BLTS.
“The lunch menu will be seasonal and rotate throughout the year,” Miller pledged.
–Warren
Norm’s Beer and Wine to Keep Vienna Location
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Norm's Beer and Wine in Vienna (Kris King/Northern Virginia Magazine)
The months-long fisticuffs between Vienna based Norm’s Beer and Wine and Greensboro chain The Fresh Market has finally come to a close. A local favorite, Norm’s was in danger of moving shop when a non-compete clause within the contract of a new neighboring Fresh Market threatened his store’s location.
Once word hit the streets, Norm’s patrons raised a holy ruckus—writing letters, making phone calls, printing bumper stickers and writing snarky, biased blog posts. A “Save Norm’s Beer and Wine” facebook page racked in over 1,700 fans in just a few weeks.
No doubt tired of the near constant din created by angry hop heads and wine drinkers, Fresh Market cracked and contacted Norm just before Memorial Day to see what they could do to call off the hounds.
“[The conversation] was very upbeat, very positive,” Norm’s owner Norman Yow told us. “[They said] that they had investigated more about the town of Vienna and about our store and decided that we’d actually be a good fit in the shopping center with them.”
“It was very complimentary of our customers,” he added.
Customer outreach to Fresh Market has been going strong for months, even before news of the trouble became public. “I know we had customers that were e-mailing and calling as early as early March, before [the news] became widespread,” said Yow.
How much influence the “Save Norm’s” campaign had on Fresh Market’s decision remains unclear. Judging by his conversation with Fresh Market, however, Yow suspects that community outreach had something to do with Fresh Market’s tack. “They didn’t come out and say that [community outrage influenced them], but I would guess that had something to do with it,” said Yow. “They took the point of view that it was just more learning about us and learning about Vienna that they thought it would work out.”
The Fresh Market posted a similar story on the “Save Norm’s” facebook page:
“We’re very excited to be coming to Vienna and to be bringing our unique shopping experience to the community. Being responsible and active participants in the community is what The Fresh Market does and is an important part of who we are. As we have learned more about the Vienna community it has become apparent that Norm’s Beer & Wine is an integral part of the fabric of Vienna. We will work with Norm so that he can continue to serve his patrons from his existing location. We look forward to being neighbors with Norm’s Beer & Wine and together serving the residents of Vienna for many years to come.”
Translation: “Please, please shop here. We’re super sorry.”
Norm’s will continue to operate business as usual, and Yow won’t have to make any changes to his business to accommodate The Fresh Market. Understandably, the business owner is simply glad it’s all over, and humbled by the flood of support from the community. “I am very grateful of all the support of everybody in town,” he said, “the support that everybody showed us was just overwhelming and very gratifying.”
- Kris King
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Friday, June 10th, 2011
The Celebrate Fairfax! Festival will be the highlight of this weekend, but here are a few other options just in case you wanted to do something else this weekend.
Friday, June 10
Free Friday Wine Tasting Night at Market Cellar
Tonight from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Market Cellar will be hosting a wine tasting event with samplings of La Perdices Viognier, Starmont Sauvignon Blanc, Domaine St. Jean Cotes du Rhone and Clifton Cabernet Sauvignon. (11873 Market Street, Reston, 20190; 703-437-9463)
Saturday, June 11
Spend your morning at the Falls Church Farmer’s Market Chef Program.
This is a monthly program where local chefs are brought in to do a cooking demonstration to teach and show the importance of using locally grown and seasonal ingredients. These demonstrations are generally two hours long and will give the audience an opportunity to taste the creations as well as ask questions. Tomorrow’s guest chef will be Chef Rob Valencia, the Execute Pastry Chef of Northside Social, Lyon Hall, and The Liberty Tavern.
This event is free and will be held from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. at the Falls Church Farmer’s Market (300 Park Ave., Falls Church, 22046). For more information and to RSVP, please visit the website here.
Maison du Vin’s First Annual BeerFest
Live in or near Great Falls? From 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Maison du Vin will be hosting their First Annual BeerFest which will feature over 40 craft beers. Admission is free. For more information please visit their website here. (756 Walker Rd Suite D, Great Falls, 22066; 703-759-9880)
Sunday, June 12
Enjoy a Wine Tasting with a Live Music Performance
Delaplane Cellars will be hosting a wine tasting event from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with a live music performance by Brian Franke. Along with wine, Delaplane Cellars will also serve cheese, sausage, hummus, and their “famous cellarbread.” Admission is free, tasting is $8. (2187 Winchester Road, Delaplane, 20144; 540-592-7210)
- Mai Nguyen
Night at the Museum: Area Food Seminars and Exhibits
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Looking for some food for the brain and not just the body? Alternatives to recreational cooking classes and wine shop tastings? This Gut Check is dedicated to seminars and exhibits at local museums that seek to educate our minds and our palates about a broad range of subjects, from sustainability to America’s rich but sometimes rocky culinary history.
The National Museum of Natural History
The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program is hosting two events on Thursday, June 9. “The Gulf and Its Seafood-One Year Later,” sponsored in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is an informal panel discussion regarding the status of the Gulf region a year after the tragic BP oil spill. Ben Stiller won’t be there, but environmental activist and actor Ted Danson will. The seminar also includes admission to a Wine & Dine Seafood Reception featuring an array of sustainable seafood dishes executed by some of the most notable chefs from both this area and the Gulf states. Some of these local luminaries include Kate Jansen of Willow Restaurant, Shannon Overmiller of Majestic Café, Nicola Flores of Hank’s Oyster Bar, and Christopher Clime of PassionFish. Select wines from Tarara Winery and Veritas Vineyard & Winery, as well as oysters from Rappahannock River Oysters, will also be featured. Space is still available, but hurry!
Location: National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium,10th & Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Time: Seminar takes place from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m.; Wine & Dine Seafood Reception follows from 8:15 to 10:00 p.m.
Admission: Purchase tickets online; $80 for Members; $95 General Admission. Quick Tix Code: 1M2-564
In an embarrassment of riches, the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program is also hosting a wines seminar entitled “Sustainable, Organic, and Biodynamic American Rhones.” Rhone producers will explain the reason why Rhone varietals “stand at the forefront of sustainability in American wine.” Attendees will also have the chance to sample a variety of wines as well as attend the Wine & Dine Seafood Reception. As of this time, the program session appears to be sold out, but because additional tickets may become available according to the website, you may want to call (202) 633-3030 if interested.
Location: National Museum of Natural History, Executive Conference Room, 10th & Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Time: Seminar takes place from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m.; Wine & Dine Seafood Reception follows from 8:15 to 10:00 p.m
Admission: Call number above for ticket availability. Price not specified.
Homewood Museum
On Friday, June 10, the Homewood Muesum is hosting an “Evening of Traditional Beverages: Homegrown Spirits.” Dr. Dennis Pogue, Vice-President of Preservation at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens, will educate attendees on the crafts spirit movement and the methodology of making spirits during the lifetime of our first president. There will also be the opportunity to mingle and speak with distillers and bid on items in a silent auction. Silent auction items include a tour and tasting for four at Mount Vernon’s Gristmill and Distillery with Dr. Pogue. Craft spirits and cocktails as well as hors d’oeuvres will be served, including award-winning Catoctin Creek Organic Mosby’s Spirit Rye and the limited-release Pearousia Pear Brandy (a collaboration with Fabbioli Cellars).
Location: Homewood Museum Lawn, 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218; alternate rain location Glass Pavilion, Levering Union
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Admission: Purchase tickets online or call (410) 516-5589. Reservations requested by the end of today, but walk-ins at the door subject to availability. $30 for Members; $40 for General Admission.
Heritage Farm Museum
Loudoun County’s Heritage Farm Museum is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the county’s “rich agriculture heritage and the history of rural life.” Standing exhibits at the museum include “In the Kitchen Cabinet,” an interactive exhibit on pre-WWI farm kitchens, featuring appliances and furnishings used before electrification of farm homes; “It’s Just a Way of Life,” an exhibit centered on ten generations of Loudoun County residents that farmed the land and built the county; and the “Children’s Farm Exhibit,” which offers youngsters the opportunity to milk “a life-like cow, collect eggs from the play chickens, and ride the Equi-ponies.”
Location: 21668 Heritage Farm Lane, Sterling, VA 20164
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $5 for Adults; $4 for Seniors; $3 for children (children under 2 admitted free)
Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery of The National Archives Building
From June 10, 2011 through January 3, 2012, the National Archives will feature “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s Effect on the American Diet.” This multi-media exhibit is organized around four themes — Farm, Factory, Kitchen, and Table — and includes films, photographs, recordings of folk songs, and war posters. On June 10, the exhibit will kick-off with a noon talk by food writer and author Laura Shapiro on the (dreadful) food served in the Roosevelt White House Kitchen and a 7: 00 p.m. opening program with James Beard award-winning chef and the exhibit’s Chief Culinary Advisor José Andrés. For more details on this ground-breaking exhibit, visit the National Archives site.
Location: Constitution Avenue at 9th Street, N.W.
Hours: Spring/Summer hours are 10: 00 a.m. to 7 p.m (through Labor Day); Fall/Winter hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with holiday exceptions.
Admission: Free!
-Johnisha M. Levi
The Norm’s Beer and Wine/Fresh Market Kerfuffle
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Norm's Beer and Wine in Vienna (Image: Kris King/Northern Virginia Magazine)
A new Fresh Market moving into the Danor Plaza shopping center on Branch Road in Vienna has caused an uproar among local beer and wine drinkers, as a non-compete clause within the grocery giant’s contract will mean that local favorite Norm’s Beer and Wine and its owner, Norman Yow, will need to vacate its location of 13 years by the middle of 2015.
Since the situation became public over the past couple of weeks, the explosion of press and local attention has fallen overwhelmingly in Norm’s favor. It’s a standard David v. Goliath story that riles up the locals and demonizes a big corporation as a carpetbagger out to bury a beloved small business and its customers, an accusation not at all unfamiliar to Fresh Market.
Yow first heard about the situation back in February, and has tried to keep things quiet in an effort to negotiate with Fresh Market and his landlord, Finmarc Management. According to Yow, Finmarc tried to keep his business in mind while negotiating with Fresh Market, but ultimately folded in an effort to fill a space that’s been vacant for years. “The landlord did imply that it was something that they felt they had no choice to do,” said Yow.
A Facebook group titled “Save Norm’s Beer and Wine,” established last week, quickly gained over 1,500 members as word spread, and a petition on Norm’s counter to keep the store in place started to rack up the signatures. According to Yow, his longtime beer and wine vendors were shocked by the situation, and even the mayor of Vienna, Jane Seeman, had dropped into the store to lend her support.
When we spoke with Yow, the business owner seemed steamrolled. “I don’t think it was a fair clause to begin with,” he said. “I’ve been a loyal tenant for 13 years, and the shopping center has had a lot of vacancies and we’ve been a constant throughout. We’ve been growing our business and drawing more and more people to the shopping center in general. So, I don’t think the situation is fair at all.”
Beer and wine drinks of the area have reason to be up-in-arms, especially in regards the mediocre beer and wine selection that The Fresh Market offers versus the niche insanity held within Norm’s tiny walls. Norm’s loses out because he’ll be forced to make a costly move, and consumers lose because their access to specialty beer and wine will be considerably diminished.
A selection of Fresh Market's beer section in Newport News, Va. (Image: Gregory Jones)
Fresh Market has six locations in Virginia, with stores in Midlothian, Newport News, Richmond, Roanoke, Virginia Beach and Williamsburg. When we first heard about Norm’s getting pushed out, we had someone pop into the Newport News Fresh Market location to scout out their stock and snap a few pictures (to the chagrin of management).
Going by the pictures, Fresh Market offers a stock consisting mostly of the same InBev, SAB Miller and Diageo six packs that you can buy just about anywhere, with little consideration for the nerds. The selection only goes about as deep as big national craft brewers like Sierra Nevada, Harpoon, Victory and a few others. Virginia brews are barely an afterthought, featuring only a couple of six packs from Williamsburg AleWerks, and as far as specialty imports go, well, they had Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown and… that’s about it. Their wine selection is similar, featuring a serviceable range of wines but hardly anything bold or imaginative.
Norm’s Beer and Wine is a different story altogether, with a carefully considered, specialized stock filling up shelves. There is hearty support for local breweries and wineries, rows of hard-to-find imports and six-packs from craft brewers from throughout the country, big and small. Norm carries a stock that favors beer slightly over wine, but both sides are strong. Yow prides himself on supporting small production breweries and wineries, saying “We have an awful lot of six packs from breweries that are too small to go into chain stores because they don’t have a large enough production for it… There are sometimes bottles that we get our hands on from some micro-brewery where a total 12 cases comes to the entire state, and we get our hands on a case.”
Norm’s is known for being able to special order anything they don’t carry in stock, as long as the beer or wine is available in the wholesaler network. Customers can also order kegs from Miller Light to German imports or California microbrews. The store has a friendly atmosphere, a helpful staff and, hey, Christmas lights.
Norm's Interior (Image: Kris King/Northern Virginia Magazine)
To use a somewhat strained analogy, if Fresh Market is a Barnes and Noble, Norm’s is the comic book shop that has weekly “Magic: The Gathering” tournaments. It’s a specifically niche store with very little overlap with the big chain. Fresh Market may be a step up from most chain grocery stores, their beer and wine section has little to offer. Norm’s selection is light-years ahead of Fresh Market’s, judging by their Newport News location, and nudging the small store out of the shopping center in an effort to better shill its mediocre selection is about as pro-corporate, anti-competition, to Hell with the little guy as it gets.
Speaking objectively on the topic proves difficult, and it hasn’t helped matters for Fresh Market or Finmarc that they’ve distanced themselves from the situation. Finmarc forwarded request for comment to the Danor Shopping Center owner, who, as of press time, has not returned our call; and Fresh Market has limited their comment to a curt press release: “We are excited about opening our new store in Vienna; however, we are unable to comment further at this time as it is our practice not to discuss the terms of our lease.”
One fact that should be stressed in the midst of this hubbub is that Norm’s is in no apparent danger of closing. When asked if his business would survive moving shop, Yow replied that it could, though he has yet to start working on the logistics of a move. If Norm has gotten anything out of this deal, it’s time. Yow’s current lease with Finmarc expires in 2013, but he does not need to vacate his location until two years after that in June, 2015, giving the store owner four years to find a new home.
“I do give my landlord credit for that, that’s something that wouldn’t have happened with a lot of landlords,” Yow conceded.
While the support generated by the plight of Yow’s little store has been overwhelming for the merchant, he’s not confident that he will be able to stay put. “It doesn’t seem like right now… that they’ll be giving in. That’s just a gut reaction.”
Still, with as much support that he’s gained over the past couple of weeks, Yow can rest easy knowing that, while he may have to move, his customers won’t be going anywhere. “Part of the reaction has been that if we have to move, then people will follow us wherever we have to go.”
- Kris King
Posted by ryan / Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Passport DC specializes in convenient cultural tourism. This means you can travel internationally without ever leaving the city. Participants can take part in street festivals, open houses, embassy events, special performances, and much more for free. It may not compare to real experiences, but bypassing the “middle man” (airports, customs) isn’t such a bad thing.
It just so happens that their biggest events are happening this month.
The Fourth Annual World Embassy Tour is Saturday, May 14 from 10 am to 4 pm. Over thirty embassies, representing all six inhabited continents are opening their doors to the public.
Visitors can experience all the different food, arts, dances, and music that the world has to offer. If last year was any indication, you may be treated to special wine tastings, afternoon tea, karate demonstrations, sari wrapping lessons, and live performances.
Participating embassies include…
1. Argentina
2. Australia
3. Bahamas
4. Bahrain
5. Bangladesh
6. Benin
7. Bolivia
8. Botswana
9. Brazil
10. Croatia
12. Ecuador
13. Egypt
14. Ethiopia
15. Ghana
16. Haiti
17. Indonesia
18. Iraq
19. Japan
20. Kazakhstan
21. South Korea
22. Mexico
23. Micronesia
24. Nepal
25. Nicaragua
26. Nigeria
27. Pakistan
28. Saudi Arabia
29. Serbia
30. Sri Lanka
31. Thailand
33. Ukraine
34. Uzbekistan
35. Venezuela
Most of them are located near the Dupont Circle Metro Station.
For more information call (202)-661-7581.
-Ryan Robertson
(image: Shutterstock)
Posted by ryan / Friday, April 15th, 2011
Do I have your attention? Well, here are the details…
The Frenchman’s Cellar of Culpeper is hosting a special event on Saturday, April 23 at noon to celebrate the Easter holiday. All those of legal drinking age are free to sample some of Williams Corner’s featured natural wines.
They’re all made in Charlottesville from hand-picked fermented grapes, and produced with a minimum amount of manipulation. Little to no sulfur is used during the bottling process, resulting in one of the most healthy and deliciously smooth wines on the market.
The Frenchman’s Cellar 129 East Davis StreetCall (540)-825-8025 for more information.
-Ryan Robertson
Posted by ryan / Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Come one, come all to the Reston Town Center on Saturday, April 30 for NoVA’s premier wine-tasting event . The Fifth Annual Great Grapes Festival continues the following day at noon. You too can take part in this outdoor celebration of food, fun, and fermented grapes. Over twenty Virginia wineries will be represented in separate tents, and more than two hundred wines can be sipped and savored.
Live music, crafts, and appetizers should provide the perfect accompaniment. See demonstrations from local artists and chefs in a beautiful setting. Market Street will be cordoned off, so no cars can come through the middle. This will allow you to admire your surroundings appropriately. There are plenty of quality stores, restaurants, and free parking in the vicinity too.
Admission options include-
1. $35 in advance for admission to both days. This entitles you to a souvenir wine glass, t-shirt, unlimited samples, and the option of watching all scheduled performances.
2. $20 in advance ($25 on-site) for admission to one day. This also entitles you to a souvenir wine glass, t-shirt, unlimited samples, and the option of watching all scheduled performances.
3. Designated Driver Tickets are $15 in advance, and $20 on-site. This is good for admission only, but gratitude is in order.
4. Kids who are 12 and under are admitted free of charge.
Visit the official website for tickets, or call (703)-476-9377 for more information.
-Ryan Robertson
(image: Uncork the Fun)