Vintage Ridge Vineyard
8517 Maidstone Road, Rectortown, VA 20144
This slightly out of the way vineyard presented a few respectable selections.
The lovely property looks like it could be a golf course with acres of well manicured lawn on the winding drive that approaches the tasting facility.
Unlike many others, here you sit at a table in the tasting room as apposed to standing at a bar to sample the wines. The seating is in the same room as several steel fermentation tanks that definitely put you in the winemaking mood.
Also different, your tasting is a series of side by side comparisons with two wines being poured at once in each 'flight'. Our server was very knowledgeable and attentive, only appearing after each sampling was complete and disappearing after each pour and informative speech.
many of the wines were just moderate - but we did take home a 2010 Cab Franc which was the pick of this litter.
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