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.

QOTD: Favorite part of Virginia? It has to be the fireflies. My immediate family went there to visit some relatives and we stood outside their home for 5 minutes staring at their bushes watching them light up with fireflies. Being from California we had never seen them before. It was so simple, yet so awesome, hehe. Our relatives probably thought we were insane.

A great show if I say so myself since I was directly in front of the G-Man when he was filming this episode and after trying these wines, he was spot on. What a fun, fun time.

QOTD: They say Virginia is for lovers and I will agree wholeheartedly. Since I lived in VA a few years ago, it has a softness in my heart. I need to answer the question instead of rambling. The best thing about VA as a previous Vayniac said is the historical significance of VA, especially Williamsburg and the home of one of our Vayniac Forefather, Thos Jefferson, Monticello.

Great to see you again Gary.

Cheers!

P.S. Great to meet Mr. Mott

Great show! Quiet crowd, attentive. Good to hear that good wines are being made by our neighbors to the south. Big ups to Virginia!

Thank you so much for a Virginia Wine Show. We vacation in Virginia every Summer and really enjoy many of the wines. I really enjoy the other 46 episodes as well, but truly we love them all. The shows have been amazing. 😉

QOTD: The Virginia Creeper Trail is my favorite VA thing.

Great show!!

Wow, coincidentally I tasted at King Family VIneyards just 3 weeks ago. I thought their wines were quite solid. I was a bit disappointed that they charged a tasting fee on top of the bottles we bought though….I mean this is Virginia, not Napa!

HEY GV
Favorite thing about VA would have to be, my wife, where i met her and where we now live. Awwhh!

Dude I am so bummed, the guy from La Grange emailed back in April and asked if I wanted to be on the list to visit while you were taping. I said FO SHIZZLE, put me on, I’ll blog live from the event.
Never heard a thing, so I missed it and you were just 2 hours away. AHHHHHH

Great episode, glad they gave your some VA wines to represent. There are still better though.
Cheers my friend.
J DUB

The wineries are my favorite thing about Virginia! Nice show as always.

QOTD: Skyline Drive 🙂

QOTD: HAM!

QOTD – My favorite thing about Virginia is that Maryland (and I) are right next door!

Gary,

Thank you for featuring some Virginia wines. There has been significant progress here over recent years to make better wines and to identify varietals that will do best here given the pariculars of our climate and growing season.

Here’s something for people to consider. If consumers would occaisionally purchase wine from the “other 46 states” from time to time -even though they cost a bit more- we might eventually see really good wines at competing prices coming from VA and around the country.

QOTD – Delicious gigantic peanuts!

QOTD: The Iron Bridge Wine Company on Warrenton, VA

QOTD: Shenandoah National Park.

QOTD: It would have to be Skyline Drive and Luray Caverns. I’m in Towson, MD so not too far a drive.

Thanks for featuring VA wines. I love the California, Oregon and French wines but you’ve peaked my curiousity with the VA wines. I’ll definitely give the Viognier a try.

Kudos to the folks in Virginia for their efforts. Great episode, sounds like a good time was had by all.

QOTD – Have not been hope to go that way when we travel to the East Coast ball parks.

QOTD: The Inn at Little Washington and their Rabbit.

qotd: looks like I’m living over 3500 miles away from Virginia and haven’t – as of yet – found the time and money to go there.

QOTD: Hampden-Sydney College football — I played there from ’00-’03, and had a blast. Nothing like good D3 football in the middle of nowhere.

QOTD: Although I’ve never been, I think that Monticello (Thomas Jefferson’s pad) in VA would be my favorite to visit. He was one of the first to import and grow vinis viniera grapes and a host of other non-indigenous North American agricultural products, and he was the first President to intensely appreciate wine and viticulture. Other than that… probably the (slightly unlikely) possibility that VA will go blue for Barack in November… PLEASE VIRGINIANS!!

I think Gary set a new personal record for the use of “air quotes” during an episode. 😀

Awesome you tasted some VA wines. I live in the DC area and have enjoyed sampling the vineyards in the areas! *Love* the Pearmund Viognier and picked up a bottle of the Cab Franc from Rappahanock just a year ago!! As always GV, you rocked it!

Now here we go! Absolute love to VA. Three new wines I’m gonna go try– especially the Viognier. But some echoing of previous sentiments: next time you do VA stuff, try Barboursville. They’re THE producer from our biggest AVA in Monticello. The Nebbiolo brings C4 “Die Hard” style (nevermind the $25-35 stuff. drink locally). Italian producers in this state. Oh yes.

QOTD- history. stop picturing pilgrims. start thinking about the real first colony, the real first College (note the capitalization), the first real church. stop thinking franklin; start thinking the true framers (madison, jefferson, washington, adams, marshall). stop thinking minute men. instead, go with the militias that went north to bail out the failing new yorkers bogged down by a failure of a british general. Visit Yorktown and see unrepaired, intact redoubts charged by the first American soldiers. And for the love of GOD, go to William and Mary.

And the cheese shop wine cellars. Just Saying.

Also, this is my favorite TV show.