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Un-Wine’d | Season 7 Episode 5 Athena Eastwood carefully and craftily creates an amazing ambience at Eastwood Farm and Winery in Albemarle County. Tassie sits down to talk with her about this women-owned and operated winery. In the kitchen, Tassie pairs Eastwood wines with Sweet Potato Coconut Curry Soup with petite manseng, a Classic…
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Written By: Paul Ting In both scale and spirit, Virginia wine is growing, fueled by new talent, broader perspectives, and ambition. The result is a more confident, creative region that’s gaining national recognition. Like other thriving wine communities, we are seeing the emergence of small, independent winemakers, and side projects from established names. The Virginia…
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By Carol Diggs Let’s all raise a glass to the Monticello American Viticultural Area, where the award-winning wines are why Charlottesville and its surrounding counties are bubbling over with oenophiles and oenotourism. June 5 kicks off Monticello Wine Week, a celebration of the wines and wine producers of the five-county Monticello AVA. The program is…
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Its Ingenue Era Over, Virginia Wine Takes Center Stage The United States’s oldest wine region is notoriously challenging for grapes. But enterprising vintners are sharpening the area’s reputation through climate-sensitive viticulture and cellar experimentation. By Cheron CowanWine Enthusiast Writer at Large and reviewer of wines from Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and the East Coast (excluding…
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What a great day! Kathy won an item in an auction that supported the Sexual Assault Resource Agency – an afternoon with Jake Busching in one of the vineyards he manages as he pours samples and talks about his wine. We were lucky enough to be invited along and Jake sweetened the deal by adding a visit to the…
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – As Central Virginia wine grows and national interest rises, some of the women behind the bottle are questioning equity within the industry. For proof of a gender gap in the wine business, Eastwood Farm and Winery owner Athena Eastwood says just look at the numbers. “How is it 2025 and there’s still only…
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Athena Eastwood knows all too well how difficult it is to get a winery off the ground. When the commodities lawyer-turned-vineyard owner was first trying to plant her roots in Central Virginia’s wine country nearly a decade ago, alongside her two daughters and partner, she knew those roots would grow only an inch at a…
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Virginia Wineries Association Announces 2025 Virginia Governor’s Cup® Gold Medalists Richmond, VA (February 24, 2025) – The 2025 Virginia Governor’s Cup® Competition marks another milestone year for the Virginia wine industry, showcasing the depth and quality of winemaking across the Commonwealth. With more than 600 entries, 87 producers were awarded a total of 155 gold medals, underscoring…
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Every once in a while something really unexpected shows up in my life, and that’s what makes writing this blog worthwhile. Just a week or so ago, Jake Busching reached out to me to ask if I would be a judge at Eastwood’s Meritage Blending Workshop. An opportunity to taste and rate wines? That one of my…
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If 2023 was the year that all the things came together for a literally perfect harvest season, then 2024 was a return to Virginia’s variable and extreme climate and a reminder of why it’s hard to grow grapes here – for some winegrowers it was as much of a dream vintage as 2023, for others…
