Frozen Vines and Gold Medal Wines: A Look Back at Winter 2025 at Veritas. It is hard to understand how this winter could have been so darn cold. We’ve been in Virginia for 25 years, and this was undoubtedly the longest prolonged spell of cold weather. I have been bemoaning that in the last few winter newsletters or so, we haven’t had a decently cold winter, but this one has made up for it in spades (or shovels of snow).

I love Autumn, and every year, I try to figure out what makes me like it so much. I often start with my favorite line from John Keats’ poem “To Autumn”…

Read on for Andrew’s reflections as we look back at the record-breaking summer of 2024, from extreme heatwaves and early harvests to milestone celebrations and reflections on our 25-year winemaking heritage. Explore the season’s highlights that tested and rewarded our commitment to crafting high-quality wines.

To quote the Bard, ”Now is the summer of our discontent, made inglorious by this summer sun of climate change.” In the history of record-keeping, 2023 has already earned the dubious distinction of being the hottest year ever recorded. From Death Valley in California to Xinjiang in China, and across Europe, temperature records are being […]

You cannot ignore the bounty of spring, every year I marvel at seeing those tiny buds break out into beautiful leaves that carry the fruit, each bud with its unique identity. Just looking at how nature repeats itself, every year is a miracle. It is truly awe inspiring and that repetition is our life blood, […]

If I were a man of all seasons my favorite season would be Autumn. I actually have a file entitled “Poetry and Thoughts of Fall.” That is no accident because of all the seasons autumn is the season of reflection, the season more than any other that tugs those heart strings not of remorse or […]

Veritas Summer Retrospective 2022 Well it’s all over now – summer that is. Labor Day is past, the kids are back to school, and harvest is in a damp swing.

Yes folks, this has been a Humdinger of a winter – we’ve had it all, blistering cold for days on end, power cuts, interstate highways blocked and the ever-lingering cloud over all our heads, COVID. Why I obsess about the weather. You may have noticed that my newsletters tend to obsess about weather and as […]

Now you may or may not know that one of the most successful segments of the English wine market is sparkling wine, known more familiarly to the Brits as English Fizz. Why am I writing about English Fizz when we are in Virginia? Because the manager of the Virginia Sparkling Company (VSC) is Elliott Watkins, […]

“Now over everything the autumn light is thrown And every line is sharp and every leaf is clear…” – Poem in Autumn, by May Sorton It really does seem like the light is different in autumn. I’m not sure why. There seems to be a clarity often enhanced by the morning chill. The sun lights […]