October is Virginia Wine Month! To kick off Virginia Wine Month, we joined several other bloggers and wine industry people for the October #VAWineChat hosted by Frank Morgan of the Drink What You Like blog. The event was held at Flight Wine Bar in Washington DC.

Frank Morgan was joined by Caroline Hermann, Master of Wine, and Swati Bose, owner of Flight Wine Bar to taste and discuss Virginia red blends. We tasted along with them and Tweeted our impressions of the wines. Flight Wine Bar treated us well with lots of wine friendly foods and a beautiful room for tasting and Tweeting.

The wines we tasted were:

Glen Manor Hodder Hill
King Family Meritage
Williamsburg Winery Adagio
Rosemont Kilravock

In addition to these wines, we also tasted the soon to be released Virginia’s Heritage. It’s a blend of wine from 16 different Virginia wineries. All the wines were wonderful and really reflect what’s happening in red blends in Virginia.

Today VirginiaWine.org launched their updated website with a new logo and tons of information about Virginia wine. Check out their updated site! Thank you Virginia Wine.org!

If and when you visit any of these wineries or Flight Wine Bar, tell them Virginia Wine Time sent you!