Great Washington Post Feature on Maryland Wineries
Sunday's Washington Post travel section featured a wonderful article about Maryland and Virginia wineries. "Vintage Shopping, Close to Home" featured the Maryland wineries of Loew Vineyards, Elk Run Vineyards , and Berrywine Plantations/Linganore Winecellars in Mt. Airy, Frederick Cellars in Frederick, and Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard in Dickerson. An excerpt:
Let's be honest: The state is more associated with crabs and beer than wine and cheese. Its winemakers can't compete with the big-time producers on the West Coast, or even the medium-size guys one state to the south. According to 2006 figures from WineAmerica, the national association of American wineries, Maryland churned out fewer gallons of wine (230,163) than New Mexico (535,376) and not much more than Colorado (206,497) or Tennessee (204,607). And don't expect to find any Gallo malls here: Most of the state's operations are small-scale and family-run. Staffs of two to four, plus the neighbor's kid, are common. But that doesn't seem to faze Maryland's ardent wine operators, or dampen their passion.
