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known only to the winemaker (and in Virginia, to the Alcohol Beverage Con trol Board). It may be more champagne or champagne mixed with sugar or honey “Only the winemaker has the exact recipe,” Corrine added.
The Oasis winery with a capacity of 100,000 gallons and 35 acres now producing grapes is no backyard vineyard and home cellar operation. But that’s exactly how it started. Corrine, a native of Belgium who has spent most of her life in Virginia, explained that she and her husband bought their land along Route 035 as an investment. Her experience with wine lay only in the drinking, she acknowledged with a wide smile. Dirgham’s was a little wider —he had grown grapes in the backyard for his kitchen winery. They planted five acres of vines on their Hume property just as a hobby. “Then enthusiasm took
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