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Article: Magazine toasts Virginia as wine-tour destination: A Travel and Leisure magazine editor picked the state for its mix of good vino and other attractions.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2007
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Byline: Jenny Kincaid Boone
Jul. 12--Virginia's wine industry received a spirited boost this month when a national publication named the state among the top five up-and-coming worldwide destinations for wine-related tourism.
Travel and Leisure magazine's wine and spirits editor, Bruce Schoenfeld, cited Virginia in a list of top wine tourism regions that included parts of Italy, Chile, Spain and New Zealand. His article appears in the New York-based magazine's July issue. Schoenfeld describes his visits to Virginia wineries near Charlottesville and in Northern Virginia.
He dotes on what he calls Virginia's best red wine, Nebbiolo, which he ...