{"id":10031,"date":"2021-10-02T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/?p=10031"},"modified":"2024-08-25T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:35:31","slug":"october-is-designated-as-virginia-wine-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/october-is-designated-as-virginia-wine-month\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Wine Light &#8211; Virginia Wine Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_10033\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10033\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10033\" src=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"RdV Vineyards in Delaplane, VA\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-840x1120.jpg 840w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-687x916.jpg 687w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-414x552.jpg 414w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400-354x472.jpg 354w, http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BIRU-WP-20191006T105045GMT-0400.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RdV Vineyards in Delaplane, VA<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/in-the-wine-light\/\">In the Wine Light<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiawine.org\/virginia-wine-month\">Virginia Wine Month<\/a>. \u00a0October is designated as Virginia Wine Month. \u00a0Outside of North Carolina, Virginia is one of our favorite American wine regions.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia&#8217;s wine history dates back nearly 400 years. \u00a0Just 12 years after the first English settlement at Jamestown, the Virginia House of Burgesses\u00a0passed &#8220;Acte 12&#8221;. \u00a0This act required each male colonist to plant and tend to grapevines. \u00a0Later in 1773, the Virginia Wine Company formed and devoted nearly 2,000 acres of land to start a vineyard and winery near Monticello. \u00a0(Source: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiawine.org\/about\">VirginiaWine.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Today Virginia boasts over 300 wineries, 9 American Viticultural Areas (with two shared with other states), and nearly 3000 acres under vine. \u00a0Plantings include Vinifera, hybrids, and native American grapes. \u00a0Much like North Carolina, Petit Manseng, Petit Verdot, and Cabernet Franc do well in Virginia. Albari\u00f1o is also another up and coming variety that is getting more attention in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to highlighting a few Virginia wines this month. \u00a0Do you have a favorite Virginia wine?<\/p>\n<p>#InTheWineLight #VAWine #VAWineMonth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[330,331],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-wine-light","tag-virginia-wine","tag-virginia-wine-month","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10565,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ncwineguys.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}