Nice short piece in the Washington Post on state wine sage Jim Law and his Linden Vineyards. His closing line is a good one.
Thanks for the link. Its worth noting again that the entire VA wine industry owes a lot to Jim and Luca. I would add Dennis Horton to the list for bringing some of the early attention to the region with the Horton Viognier. Jim Law has always been willing to talk with me about grape growing and wine making and always real open with his way of doing things as well as his opinions. Last October when I was there I asked his opinion about fermentation temperature and I got a more detailed version of it depends but when I told him that it was my Petit Verdot that hit 90 for about 12 hours he got specific real quick and stated its going to be real rustic. Funny thing is that right now it doesn’t taste that way at all but I figure once its been in bottle for a while I will find that Jim was right.
Brian, I’m curious, where do you make wine?
In my garagae and basement. It’s not a commercial operation. I have 350 vines on my property and its all for our own consumption.
Excellent! I’d love to sample it sometime…
And here I thought this was going to be a ranking of law schools.
Funny; I thought it was going to be about corkage and/or the three-tier system. 
You must be one of the few non-lawyers here. ![[snort.gif]](/uploads/db3686/original/2X/b/bdc3944606213c4dca6c1169cf0a166c8bc4f8c9.gif "snort.gif"){kind=small}
Ha! I wish. 
Thank you for providing the article link. I have found Jim Law always willing to share his thoughts whether in person or by email. His wines are always at a minimum very good and he will “declassify” grapes destined for his top bottlings if he’s not happy with the quality. One point I think is lost on most wineries, particularly outside the west coast, is that they do not taste quality wines from around the world. Jeff White, Beserker alum, mentions that Law and colleagues would regularly taste wines which to me is a big plus in learning what “quality” should taste like. Kudos to Linden and I hope Jim keeps at his craft and sharing his ideas.
uva…nuff said
Ah! The Italian word for grape!