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ing director of Oasis in 1994, helping to direct operations while his father Dirgham coasted into retirement and his mother Corrine ran a Montessori school in Alexandria.
The younger Salahi created the vineyard’s vaunted Meritage line, which won Gold Medals at 1994 and 1996 world wine championships, and in 1998 he launched a Cuvee “Celebration,” a sparkling wine, which also garnered top awards.
By last year, the vineyard was producing as many as 18,000 cases per year, and Salahi had launched a successful limousine business, as well as a wine distributor and bottled water business.
He calls the Piedmont wine-making region “the Napa valley of the East Coast, and he has big plans for the vineyard, such1 as a high-end bed-and-breakfast and a culinary school.
“It’s a very grandiose plan which could take in a lot of money,” Margenau said. “Tareq has been a brilliant marketer who has made Oasis the biggest brand in Virginia.”
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