Hello Spring! A lot of people associate warm sunny days with our sweeter 100 percent fruit wines, but our dry wines can work just as well. To highlight some of our favorite dry wines, they are currently on sale in our tasting room. Once you try them out with our winemakers’ recommended food pairings, you may have a whole new way of looking at wine and sunshine! (And PS: there might also be a dessert wine involved, too). Chardonnay – $9.17 plus tax Our winemakers suggest pairing this with chicken and seafood dishes, particularly white fish and lobster dipped in butter….
Love wine? Join the club. How great is it to get something in the mail that isn’t junk or a bill? That’s the idea of our new Linganore Wine Club, which also gives you the option to pick up your wine in person at a quarterly members-only party! These parties will be held on the first Friday of every shipment month, and give members a personal experience in their backyard that most subscriber-based wine clubs do not offer. Members will receive quarterly shipments of three wines in March, June, September and December. You’ll be able to select a membership of…
Make a day of it! If you are anything like us, winter cabin fever starts to get pretty old, pretty fast. While a trip somewhere warm and tropical would be ideal, if you need some faster gratification (ie. getting out of the house), why not plan a day trip to our home in Mount Airy? Throughout the month of February, we will be featuring our Cask to Kisses pairing with wine and chocolate. We’ll have sweet, dry and blended lists and multiple complimentary chocolates and chocolate-related products. There might even be a chocolate cherry cordial cheese spread involved. If you…
Are you the one that doesn’t like being cold? Do you cringe at the thought of freezing temps? Well it might not be the most pleasant temperature for people it is great for wine! As wine ages many things happen chemically to the wine. Not the least of which is the reduction of Tartaric acid levels due to its combination with free Potassium to produce an crystal which eventually drops out. You may have seen these on the corks or in the bottles from time to time. To hasten their production which results in a smoother wine we drop the…
Hello everyone! Pinky here, writing about all the happenings at our place! We have been very busy here with all of the grapes being harvested. Eric tells us that so far we have harvested well over 180 tons of grapes. To give you an idea of how much that actually is, an average bag of grapes in the grocery store is about two or three pounds. Multiply that by 180,000 (a ton is 2,000 pounds) and I think you would agree that it is a lot of grapes. You get really sick of eating them while you are picking them…
