Today we finished our tour of Southern Virginia wineries late this afternoon. We are now near Richmond awaiting the start of the Wineries Unlimited Trade Show & Conference early tomorrow morning. Many of the winemakers and winery owners we met this past week, plan to attend this annual event. We look forward to seeing them again and other winery friends we have met over the past five years. We will also garner more information about winemaking and vineyard management as well as the very important issue of marketing your wine or mead.

From our visit to Southern Maryland wineries we received three recipes that use wine as an ingredient that we look forward to sharing with our readers. We already have more than 200 recipes with wine on the Wine Trail Traveler website.

We discovered how delightfully friendly the winemakers and owners are in Southern Virginia. And in addition Southern hospitality truly can be discovered in Virginia.

We urge you to get away from the busy metropolitan area of Baltimore and Washington and travel south where traffic is less and hospitality abounds.

While we attend the Conference our articles about the wineries we recently visited will slow down as we cover the Conference. However, they should be available in the next week or two.

Cheers! Kathy