Tasting Virginia: Paradise Springs Winery

Wine tastes pretty good in a 200 year-old cellar. It’s not something I do very often, but when I found myself in under an old log cabin at Paradise Springs Winery in Clifton, Virginia with my DC-based daughter, Tara, I thought, there’s really something different going on underground. [...]

The Raptors at Church and State Winery

By the time we’d arrived at Church and State Winery, the raptors were already in flight. As we settled into the bleachers, Athena the Gyr/Saker Falcon was dive bombing a meat-encrusted toy-on-a leach thrown in the air by handler Robyn Radcliffe, and she then landed to feast on it. [...]

Volcanic Hills Explodes Mt Boucherie

One thing you almost never see at a wine tasting is a live band, much less a six-piece combo with a horn section. But at the Volcanic Hills tasting at the Beyond Restaurant in the Century Plaza Hotel here in Vancouver, Moja was playing everything from Bob Marley to Talking Heads, and it was an epiphany. [...]