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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Rappahannock Non Staff Writrr
A visit to Billy Stuart’s Washington vineyard is a special pleasure that you would ordinarily associate with a trip to California, New York, or the wine-growing regions of Europe. It would be a mistake to say the Stuart is one of the growing number of Virginia farmers and gardeners who are growing grapes for table use or to sell for wine, juice, jam and jelly: Stuart is tending vines that were planted by his father, William Stuart, Sr., well before he was born and others that were planted by both men in the seventy-eight years since then.
Stuart tends his grapes at his family home on Blue Ridge Avenue, coining here each summer from his home in Beltsville. When I visited him on a sunny afternoon he was deploring the condition of his vines and quoting Thomas Jefferson. “I couldn't get here at all this summer until the grapes were, just about ready to pick," he said. "1 have hired people to keep the grapes cleared out but the results put me in mind of what Thomas Jefferson said: ‘If you want something done send; but if you care about the outcome, co.'
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