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Connoisseurs from Rappahannock will have the opportunity to sample the best of the Commonwealth’s burgeoning wine industry at the Virginia Wineries Festival, which will be held this year on June 25 and 26 at the Northern Viginia 4H Educational Center just over the mountain in Warren County.
Gold, silver, and bronze medals hanging around the necks of the wine bottles at last Thursday’s kickoff luncheon and tasting prove that Virginia wines are achieving the prominence foreseen by Thomas Jefferson more than two centuries ago.
In the decade since the rebirth of the Commonwealth’s wine industry, the number of farm wineries has jumped from six to 40 and the number of acres in grapes from 286 to 1,350. The statistics put Virginia seventh among farm w inery states. And with 130 commercial wineries now operating here, Virginia ranks third in total wine production, trailing only California and New York. (A farm winery must produce 51 percent of its wine from grapes grown on land it owns or leases. A commercial winery can bottle wine from anywhere.)
But the vines on the 1,350 acres
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