This weekend, June 21, Old Town Manassas shuts down to host a whole ton of booths, including a sort of "wine alley," featuring premier Virginia wineries. There will also be a slew of fine Jazz music, including Doc Gibb's of Emeril fame, among others.
My clients, Michael Matthews and Michael Sawyers of Vino Curioso are the real home-town wine guys attending the Fest. Though they have grapes growing from Winchester to the Northern Neck, Vino is soon to open their "Virginia Wine Factory" at a huge, split level, absolutely industrially cool location near Nissan Pavillion, right outside of Manassas.
Check them out before they get too full of themselves...nibbling teensy baby quail complimented with a room temperature fromage avec la réduction de grenouille et de crevette d'airelle (thems good eats), chatting with lots of nice, wine-loving people in one of their two lounges (the upstairs one is especially sweet) and quaffing their top notch Sangiovese out of grossly oversized snifters (garnished with umbrellas), all the while referring to each other in made up, foreign pen names. Like "Monsieur Le Plume."
Plus, you can watch them make wine at the Factory...amusing and educational! (Really, they are fun guys and you can see how they make their absolutely great wines. Neat.)
Check out this shot of the owners (above) and you will know who you are talking to when you attend the Manassas Fest on Sunday. Michael Matthews is on the left wearing a stylish golf beenie. Michael Sawyers is on the other left, greedily clutching for his own an entire bottle of fine, fine red. Nobody knows who belongs to the ghost hands floating on either side of this photo, but they appear thirsty.
Check out more Festival detailed info here:
http://media.visitmanassas.org/events/viewevent.aspx?id=2051
Photo Credit: Steve Urry, HMI Marketing and Events Coordinator. Thank you, Steve!
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