DC Loudoun County Wine Trail

 

 

 

Brrrr....it's cold outside...why not warm up with a nice glass of wine?

 

 

Check out the DC Wine Trail and make sure to attend one of the brillant winery events!
More information about the DC Wine Trail and all the winery events at http://ow.ly/hVzWp

 

Make it a wine weekend getaway with the Embassy Suites Dulles North and Homewood Suites Dulles North wine packages including overnight accomodations, DC Wine Trail bottle of wine and fruit, cheese tray.

 

More information on these packages listed below:

Homewood Suites Dulles North Wine Package

Embassy Suites Dulles North Wine Package

Dulles VA Weekend Events Feb 7th

Dulles Weekend    Events

 Check out these great events going on this weekend in the Dulles and Loudoun County Area. Events like Uncork Your Weekend, Live music, farmers market, BBQ Dinners, Yoga and more special events.

All Weekend Long

• Cooking Class Weekend at Briar Patch Bed & Breakfast Inn
• Wines & Chocolate at Willowcroft

 Friday February 8th

• Uncork Your Weekend

Saturday February 9th

• Leesburg Winter Farmers Market
• Purcellville Winter Market
• Le Bal De Fur
• Winter Talks at Oatlands
• Winter Wine Night BBQ Dinner & Live Music by Ken Wenzel
• Love is in the Air!
• Birding Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve
• Samedi Gras (Fat Saturday)
• Fireside Chat featuring Local Cheese Maker Molly Kroiz
• Yoga on the Wine Trail at Bluemont Vineyard

More information about these events at http://ow.ly/htxF4.

DC/Loudoun County Wine Country

With the cold winter days still abay, make sure to get out to these wineries to warm you up! Check out DC Wine Country.

For more information on winery events and the different wineries please go to http://ow.ly/gwjRM.    

Bluemont Vineyard Special Mother's Day Celebration

Celebrate Mom's and all she does with a scenic, open air Chef's Table event at beautiful Bluemont Vineyard!

Chef Brad Spates will treat you and mom to eight delicious courses with wine pairings. The night will start off with a sparkling wine reception and gourmet appetizers. Then you'll be seated for a multicourse culinary journey of local, fresh food from Great Country Farms, with ingredients picked just a few steps from where you'll be dining. Each dish will be prepared on site at the tasting room and paired with a few amazing Bluemont wine selections.

For more information please go to http://ow.ly/aPu8A.        

Weekend Events in Loudoun County this Weekend!

Get out and experience Loudoun County this weekend with the following events!

Saturday January 21st:

Lovesick Blues: The Life & Music of Hank Williams Sr. Featuring Robbie Limon
8pm
Franklin Park Performing & Visual Arts Center
$20/adult, $17/student or senior citizen

Soup Saturdays
11am-9pm
Loudoun Valley Vineyards
$12/person for glass of wine and bowl of soup, $2 extra for reserve wines.

Lost Creek Presents Jason Masi
1-5pm
Lost Creek Vineyard & Winery
Free performance; $7/person for wine tasting

Bluemont Dance
7:30pm workshop, 8pm dance
Hillsboro Old Stone School
$10/person, $7/Bluemont Friends, students, and senior citizens

All Weekend Long (Sat and Sun):

20th Hunt Country Winter Antiques Show
Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm
The Hill School
$10 per person

Cabernet Franc Vertical Tasting
Tastings on the hour 11am-4pm
Fabbioli Cellars
$10 per person

4th Annual Route 9 Barrel Tasting
11am-5pm
Participating wineries along Route 9 in Loudoun County including 8 Chains North, Doukenie Winery, Hillsborough Vineyards, Loudoun Valley Vineyards, and Sunset Hills Vineyard
$50 per person

Lost Creek Winery Soup Weekend
12-5pm
Lost Creek Winery and Vineyard
$15/person includes soup, warm bread, and a glass of wine

Loudoun County Wine Trail, have you experienced it yet?

Have you checked out the Loudoun County Wine Trail yet?

Virginia has a many varieties of wines that are made here in Loudoun County. There are eight different types of grapes used to create these delicious, native wines.

 They are the following:

• Chardonnay: a dry white wine with citrus, apple, pear or tropical fruit tastings. Generally, vanilla, butterscotch, and toasted oak are extracted due to the barrel aging.
• Cabernet Franc: a spicy and herbal red wine. Extracted flavors can include black pepper, cinnamon, currants, mint and leather.
• Cabernet Sauvignon: a tannic, dry wine with currants, green olives, herbs, and bell peppers, with a tasting of mint and leather.
• Chambourcin: an American-French hybrid grape is known to create a dark color in wine but is very light on your palate. This wine is widely accepted to white wine drinkers as their red wine choice.
• Merlot: a red dry wine that is known to have a strong flavor in the beginning and a soft finish while drinking it. Black cherries, anise, blueberry and plum are the usual flavors.
• Norton: this is Virginia's native grape. The grape itself is dark in color and the wine has fruity flavors that include plum and tart cherries.
• Viognier: This grape was originally grown in Condrieu in the Rhone Valley in France. This grape is easily grown in Loudoun County due to the county's soils, climate, sunlight and growing season are perfect for the grape's perfect conditions.
• Blends: here winemakers combine different grapes together to create a unique but delicious wine. When tasting a blend make sure to ask about what grapes were used in this process.

Why not try them all? Create a weekend out of visiting wineries and tasting the different wines that Loudoun County Wine Trail has to offer. The Homewood Suites Loudoun Wine Package and the Embassy Suites Loudoun Wine Package give you the opportunity to do so!