Our empire groweth

Us, at a previous Bacchanalian feast

By now, you may have figured out that Rick and I are reinventing our mid-life selves by growing an empire in Virginia wine travel, one that will make us fabulously rich, fat, and happy.  First, the app.  Then, the world. What you may not know is that, when we achieve that pinnacle, we’ll throw sprawling, wine-soaked, bacchanalian feasts daily – free! – for those who’ve lent us a hand or a kind word along the way. 

We’ll bring in jesters and serving wenches and spit-roasted wild boar on platters so big they’ll require twenty strong men to carry them.  We’ll swig cider from Foggy Ridge and Albemarle, and mead from Hilltop Berry Farm Winery and Blacksnake Meadery.  And wine!  Barrels and barrels of that heralded vintage (2010), aged slightly in French oak and cellared  for however long it takes us to become rich, fat, and happy.  (Well, rich, anyway; after four months of winery “research,” we have arguably reached fat and happy already.)

Anyhoo, we have already begun to compile our Colossal Bacchanalian Feast & Wine Festival guest list.

Our Readers, of course, will be invited.  And we’ve now added TheGeoff, who recently said nice things about us.  And MyVineSpot is generous about retweeting us, so he’s in.  DrinkWhatYouLike sends encouraging notes about our 150 Days of Virginia Wine Tour, so we can’t leave him out.  And everyone at Fauquier County Tourism, because they link to all our Fauquier County Wine Trail reviews.

I’m sure the list will grow, because one thing we’ve noticed on the Tour is how, in the Virginia wine community, everybody helps everybody out.

We hope to see you there!  We’ll keep the flagon filled for you!

Oh, wait! How could I have left out Wine About Virginia – the first website to link to us?  Or Cameron at Sans Soucy Vineyards in Brookneal for promoting our app?  And my friend Joyce!  You guys are on the list, too!

Yikes, we’ll have to get a bigger boar!