Vino Curioso: Manassas Fest a Success!

The annual fall street festival, in Manassas, Virginia, has but a few wineries displaying their wares and Vino Curioso Wineryis one of those wineries in attendance.

Featured Vino wines include the signature "Franc the Tank" Cabernet Franc and their Sangiovese, one of the hardest types of quality wines to produce, given the Virginia climate.

Other wines produced by Vino Curioso include a cabernet sauvignon, a red wine blend called"Assemblage," a chardonnay and a chardonnay blend," "Chardontage," and a Viognier, among others.

The Vino tent was a hit, with customers of all ages and types being drawn to the quality vintages. Even the mayor of Manassas, "Hal" Parrish, stopped by for a quick hello!

This dog doesn't belong to Vino Curioso. He is just a cool pooch that came and hung out.

To learn more about Vino Curioso, and especially their soon to open facility/tasting room, The Wine Factory, please contact owner/winemaker Michael Matthews (seen in these photos as the man in glasses and a black shirt): 703 447 0648.

You may visit their site, for information and shipped orders, at www.vinocurioso.com.

Philip Carter Strother shows New Featured Painting at VA Wine Epo

At the recent Virginia Wine Expo, in the Commonwealth's capitol of Richmond, Philip Carter Strother (owner of Philip Carter Winery of Hume/Markam, Virginia) is shown a newly created painting of his family farm.  

Painted by Allan Guy, this painting is to go onto a special sub-brand, produced by Philip Carter Winery, with portions of the proceeds to go to charity, benefiting the beautiful northern Virginia Piedmont region.

Each year, specifically, a Virginia artist will be asked to contribute a Virginia scene (in his or her medium of choice) to this cause, benefitting the region that is the homeland of the Carter/Strother family...as well as that of Allan Guy, since before 1650.

The painting is an oil on prepared on fine, Molvin' d' Arches French watercolor paper and depicts the view of the headwaters of creeks leading into Crooked Run Valley, from the family farm named Valley View.  It is a working farm to this day, with productive orchards and cattle also being produced in abundance.

Look for a launching of this wine, featuring this artwork in the late spring!

Also, please look into Piedmont Virginia magazine, who kindly provided this photograph, but also provide a wonderful publication worthy of subscribing to! --special thanks to Margaret McCann.  This photo and her article describing it has been recently published in this fine magazine.