QOTD: We’ve only been in VA for 5 months and we Love it! The fact that we can have a very short drive, jump on the metro and pop up in the middle of DC or have a short drive in the other direction and be in the middle of now where is just great!

I’m new to the show, wish I would have know the show was going to be soo close, that would have been fun. But at least we know about the winery so we can go visit it now. And have another wine to try.

We went from having a bottle of wine once every other month or so, and not fully enjoying it, to now we have 4 bottles in the kitchen we can’t wait to try. Everything we’ve had so far we’ve liked or loved!

And now Osi is out for the season. Dammit.

What I love about VA: the mountains are incredible

Yo G & Mott, GIIIIIINOOOOOOOOOOORMOUSY GOOOOOOOD Episode !!!!!!! 🙂

QOTD: Used to fly out to Norfolk to work (in my first government job).
Loooooved the Greeeeeat Seafood Restarauts at the time. i.e. All Ya
Can Eat Crab Legs for $4.99……..YUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMM !!!!!

Thanks for being the tour guide to wineries of the world…It’s very exciting to see how much is out there even though I come from California and am a bit boosterish for my own state. qotd: Dulles Airport is the extent of my Virginia
experience. I was blown away (coming from my very dry L.A.) to see how green and lush the countryside is during the summer.

QOTD: I would have to say that The Shenandoah National Park is my favorite part. Very beautiful

QOTD: The historical significance, VA Beach and from a wine perspective the Kluge Estate Vineyards and Winery…especially the sparkling wines.

Besides my wonderful in-laws who live in Richmond, my favorite part of Virginia is visiting Monticello. My husband the VT-grad would say Blacksburg is the best.

What do you consider to be the top 3 or 4 states for wine?

QOTD: Love Quantico ’cause that’s where I was conceived. I’m glad that Pearmond redeemed themselves with the Viognier.

I almost couldn’t finish this episode due to your most excellent performance at 27:02! I became mesmerized, and had to play it , like 15 times! Maybe the greatest display of your ability to over animate, surely worthy of a Tony Award. James Lipton said: “Ha ha haaaa, Gary Vaynerchuk, you are a treasure, and a deee-LIGHT!!!”

Always nice to hear about another wine region. I was good the VA did not disappoint. Love to see you here in Missouri.

QOTD: Virginia ham and biscuits. Yum.

Great show. Used to live in VA. You gotta go to Linden Gary. And you gotta gotta try their 2004
Late Harvest Vidal. Kickin !!!

I was in the DC area about 10 years ago. I love the Atlantic coast. Fresh seafood is amazing. I’d say the colonial history is the big winner.

I love Virginia Wines – And this is a relativily new winegrowing area! North Carolina is even newer – both show GREAT potential. Look out west coast -Look out New York!

Hmmm….the best thing about Virginia is that I no longer have to be there!

I spent 3 years there in the Navy, and I liked being out to sea more than being at my Homeport of Norfolk.

Sorry…but i gotta be honest.

QOTD: Mount Vernon

HI GV, sounds like it was a fun saturday. Hey, DID YOU EVER, EVER , EVER, think you would be trying Virginia wines and score them in the upper eighties (avg) !!! and SIX OF THEM, not one was even close to being so/so… that is amazing. Kudos to VA and the wines they’re pumping out… wish they were easier to find.

QOTD: I unfortunately have never been to Virginia

Don’t know a whole heck of a lot about Virginia, but I do hear that it’s a pretty good terrior for wine growing. Maybe one day they can take all that tobacco land and turn it into vinyards.

QOTD – Driving on I-81 along the Blue Ridge Mountains is great!

Virginia is a beautiful State and one whose wines I need to explore for myself. This Episode gives me a valuable glimpse into the areas wines, which seem to offer quite a lot more than my own State of Pennsylvania.

I attended a recent PA wine festival and was very disappointed in what is available here. The PA reds were really lacking (but oddly enough, selling quite well). I’m not experienced enough to describe the unusual taste of this stuff, but it just isn’t like any other reds I taste an enjoy from other regions. Almost all the whites taste the same, like sugar-fortified grape juice with a touch of tart. I don’t get it! I went homeempty-handed. 🙁

The Virginia Wine Festival is coming up in late September. After watching this Episode, I will make my plans to drive on down and check out the Virginia wine scene. Maybe then I’ll be better able to answer the QOTD from a sad PA wine lover.

Virginia is a beautiful State and one whose wines I need to explore for myself. This Episode gives me a valuable glimpse into the areas wines, which seem to offer quite a lot more than my own State of Pennsylvania.

I attended a recent PA wine festival and was very disappointed in what is available here. The PA reds were really lacking (but oddly enough, selling quite well). I’m not experienced enough to describe the unusual taste of this stuff, but it just isn’t like any other reds I taste an enjoy from other regions. Almost all the whites taste the same, like sugar-fortified grape juice with a touch of tart. I don’t get it! I went homeempty-handed. 🙁

The Virginia Wine Festival is coming up in late September. After watching this Episode, I will make my plans to drive on down and check out the Virginia wine scene. Maybe then I’ll be better able to answer the QOTD from a sad PA wine lover.

QOTD:

I still remember my visit to Thomas Jefferson’s house. He was a big
wine drinker and inventor. Jefferson had a pair of doors he invented that
swung open simultaneously, past generations had to open the mechanism to
see how they worked. Loved monticello, Need to try Cabernet Franc.

QOTD: I can’t pick one thing!!! I’m back in FL for the last two months and I miss Charlottesville, the restaurants, the vineyards (Veritas, Barboursville, and Keswick to name a few), the Blue Mountain Brewery, the mountains, my townhouse, the weather, and definitely the people. They are some of the nicest I have lived with anywhere! Thanks for checking out more VA vino, GV.

QOTD: mountains, ocean, Chesapeake Bay/tidewater, proximity to DC, some fine under-the-radar restos in Richmond (Mamma Zu, Millie’s) and, yes, the wines.

Thanks for this episode, Gary ? glad you found some promising juice in the OD. I knew it was there!

Woohoo! Great show. I wish I could have gone, you were in Haymarket right?

QOTD: Virginia is just so friggen diverse! You have your beach and resort town at Va. Beach, your modern, fast paced lifestyle in the Northern VA area, but we’re most known for the colonial stuff.

There’s Jamestown and Williamsburg where this whole US experiment began 400 years ago. There’s the Yorktown area where we chased out the British and where we became a free nation. There’s there Northern Neck where I’m from where you can see the birthplace of the Lee family and the Washington families. There’s the Lynchburg area where Jefferson lived..it goes on and on with the Presidents that were born here. You have the Richmond/Petersburg, Fredericksburg, and Appomattox area where the country both divided and rejoined during the Civil War. Then you can see the turn of the century industrial machine still here today.

Sorry for the long post, but there’s no way you can say one good thing about my state, but I can sure hell tell you a hundred great things about this state.