Delve Wines Estate Fruit in the Bottle and in Your Glass! A short but amazing visit to Colombe Vineyards to check out new releases (and an unreleased wine as of now!) from Delve.

Spent the day at Colombe Vineyards (growers for Delve Wines) in Lovingston, Virginia yesterday. Small batch producers are the best. Check out the post: mynovawine.blog/2025/09/14/d...
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Great Things Come in Threes Another visit to The Collective, this time to check out a special wine from the history books, and to sample some Domaine Finot! Visit the Collective, you will be assimilated.

A library wine, a pop-up with small batch production good stuff, and a cozy place for a Friday night.....
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Ankida Ridge Wine Dinner at the Clifton Recapping a fantastic wine dinner at the Clifton Inn with the wines of Ankida Ridge!

I recommend wine dinners - so much fun! Here is a short recap of our wine dinner at the Clifton Inn with Ankida Ridge! mynovawine.blog/2025/07/25/a...

Wines We’ve Been Drinking Lately – June 2025 Edition June was hot, and red wine is the way to stay cool. This is the way.

One month in wine, summarized here:
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Hark Launches a New Tasting Room (and Why You Need to Get There) Hark has opened their tasting room! It’s a beautiful space, and a great match for their fantastic wine. I hope you will check out their current tasting lineup AND this awesome place!

One of my faves @harkvineyards.bsky.social has opened a new tasting room. It's awesome!
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Friday FunDay: Winemakers Come Together for Good at the Generous Pour Some wrap up thoughts on my first time at the Virginia Wine Benefit Gala – The Generous Pour.

Some of the most fun I've had in wine experiences!!!! I hope you'll watch for this next year!!! #VaWine #winelover🍷 #winetasting🍷 Read the post: mynovawine.blog/2025/04/26/f...

Are you planning on going to the Virginia Wine Benefit "Generous Pour" auction and evening out on April 25th? You should! Check out this post to learn a little more AND see inside for a chance to win TWO FREE TICKETS to go!
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You don't want to miss this!

Downloaded all amazon data, canceled Prime, and now hesitating over clicking the "Close your account" button........ sigh.

Today's boycott will be hard. Figuring out frozen food options to take to work for lunch, and grilled cheese and salad for dinner. But today I will also shut down prime, as well as my amazon account. So many household things - water filters, vacuum filters, batteries, etc to change buying habits.

Really enjoyed hearing from and talking with Abigail Spanberger tonight! Our next Governor!

I use WordPress - it has a free level option as well as paid features that allow for more - but it allows simple text and visuals formatting, and has a variety of free "themes" for layout etc. Paid services provide additional themes,media storage, and options for paid subscribers and sales.

Here we go. It's getting crazier by the day.
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Another weekend, another wine release. This time, Arterra's 2022 Estate Reds Winter Release. Tremendous wine and food, and great insights into the wines. So much good stuff. mynovawine.blog/.../arterra-... Arterra Wines/HawkmothArts #VaWine #winelovers #winetasting #wineblogger

Whether it is grounded in religion, spirituality, or some other source, take hold of your faith and face this onslaught with calm resolve, and then take your rest when you need it.
I'm saying this more to myself than to you, but perhaps it will be helpful.

Find things that are self-care, that feel restorative, and make time for rest, because we cannot succumb to this assault on our consciousness, our moral compass, our sense of right and wrong, our understanding of justice.

We are maintaining a focus on truth in the face of an onslaught of distortion and insanity. We have to find a way to power up too, because it's going to get much, much worse in the coming months and years.

Fighting that all day every day since November 6, 2024, when you know you're not crazy and that the world isn't functioning sensibly, wears everything in you down. I think it's OK that we're exhausted, that we want to withdraw, that we are truly deeply weary.

Moreso than the racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic nonsense, the whole cognitive dissonance is the most exhausting part of this. I find myself worn down by fighting the tiny voice inside saying "If this is happening then maybe you're crazy and the world isn't."

How can you be part of a marginalized group and get excited about a politician whose career is built around mocking and disempowering marginalized people? Are humans losing empathy? Do white gays think being white will protect them?

Ugh. Just unfriended (on the 'book platform) a gay couple we know peripherally here because they were celebrating attending the inauguration and how great it was. I'm nauseous.

Linden 2021 Release We had a wonderful visit checking out the 2021 red blends, released this weekend at Linden.

If you're here to read about the wine, read this:
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You know who everyone trusted as kids? Smokey Bear. We need a Smokey Bear but for preventing fascism.

But this is the party of the average American, right? And they get the needs of typical people with economic insecurity, right? Ugh. Just ugh.

Ten Bottles I Loved in 2024 Giving you my annual list of ten wines that really moved me this year – fun bottles I found that were standouts in a field of wine that I truly adore.

Hey wine people! You should 100% read this post on my top ten Virginia Wines of the year!
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This is so true. Trickle down economics never trickled down. Cutting regulations never led to lower prices nor did it lead to safer products/services. Corporations do not police themselves.