Goal: Visit every Virginia winery by 2012

Perhaps this may not seem lofty to you? According to www.virginiawine.org, there are currently 191 wineries over a whopping 42,000 square miles.  If we take 75 weeks, that's an average of 2.5 wineries a week.  Yes, I'm a very lucky person to have conceptualized this idea!  Oh, I failed to mention that I plan to not only visit but DRINK at every winery, perhaps obvious to some...maybe not others.

So why am I doing this?  Well there are a couple of reasons:

• I love wine.  That's pretty straight forward.
• I love all things Virginia.  After all, it's for lovers.
• I want to put Virginia wine on the map for those non-Virginians out there.
• It seems rather challenging considering I work a full-time job that really will only allow me to do this on weekends (not to mention many of these are only open on the weekend and during warm months).  I love a good challenge!
• I love supporting local businesses.
• I  can't think of a better way to spend my weekends.

So wish me luck (my husband, Ryan, too as he will be with me most of the time) and share this with others.  In return, you will get some good info about wine, wineries, etc. in a layman's, not sommelier, kind of way, I can promise you that!  We will take pictures, give you the LD on the wineries throughout the state of Virginia, and hopefully encourage you to check out what Virginia wine has to offer.