October is Virginia Wine Month. Over the past 40-plus years, the Virginia wine industry has gone from virtually non-existent to 6th in the country in terms of production.
Frappato is a light, fruity red wine from Sicily that has the potential for pairing with a wide variety of food.
“White” wines can range in color from green to gold and “red” wines can range in color from purple to ruby to garnet. What leads to all of these color variations?
Hurricanes are never good, but for a number of reasons they are especially bad for wine regions during harvest time, which generally runs from late August to mid-October in the Mid-Atlantic States.
The island of Sardinia, off the west coast of Italy, produces a red wine called "Cannonau."
