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. [...]

Wines of Sonoma in the City of Vancouver

russian river wine trail, sonoma county. By Mari Kane, www.tastingroomconfidential.com

Sonoma County wine makers return to Vancouver on October 18 to pour some of their best wines before taking their Sonoma in the City tour to Ottawa and Toronto. [...]