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You can be drawn to this Virginia producer by the view or the tasting room, or you can come simply for the wine
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Early Mountain Vineyards in Madison, Virginia, is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays. It s a little more than a three-hour drive from Harrisburg.
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Early Mountain Vineyards has become one of the must-see wineries in a state where there is an increasing number of them.
Located in Madison, Virginia, the winery is a little more than a three-hour drive from Harrisburg and two hours and 15 minutes southwest of Baltimore. It’s an hour and a half northwest of Richmond.
Megan Bell, winemaker at Margins Wine, is frustrated by the term “natural wine.”
While there’s no official U.S. designation, it generally refers to wines made without chemicals, flavoring or coloring agents, as well as no added sugars or acids, fining or filtration. Many believe that natural wines should be made without additional sulfur or temperature-controlling agents like dry ice, though others make exceptions for those practices. Despite such porous parameters, Bell finds the term exclusionary.
Early Mountain Vineyards’ Block 10 Merlot in Virginia / Photo courtesy of Early Mountain Vineyards
At events like RAW Wine Fair, participants must have used all organic or biodynamic agriculture, have less than 70 milligrams per liter (mg/L) sulfites, and can’t use additives or sterile filtration.
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Foodie Friulano
By Annelise Kelly
Land plus climate equals wine destiny. Together, these geographical qualities determine which grapes flourish and which struggle. However, while most Oregon winemakers appreciate their dependable regional varieties such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, they’re still captive to a sense of curiosity and exploration, unable to resist experimenting with the occasional obscure grape.
Enter Tocai Friulano, a grape long cultivated in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy’s northeastern-most wine region. The first point made in any literature on this varietal emphasizes that it’s not to be confused with the Hungarian wine region of Tokaj or its wines called Tokay or Tokaji. This ambiguity has resulted in European labeling regulations that don’t apply in the U.S.