Barboursville

Through the years, the winery has led in establishing the credibility of the Virginia appellation with an array of vitis vinifera wine varietals, cultivating wines of a European heritage which wholly justify this new terroir. We are conscious of a joyful debt to that cultural and culinary tradition, not merely in grape cultivation, but in crafting wines of inherent food-friendliness.

We have shown how the most probing articulation of the exceptionality of this terroir, will always come from wines bearing a universally recognised varietal frame of reference. Here, then, are wines showing no contradiction between the most beautiful commemoration of place, and the honoring of expectations embraced by time.

Very few leading estates in the world of wine present an array of varietals of this diversity. On the contrary: most estates were created to present the one or two wines dominantly identified with their region or with the market's demand. But this was the region's first estate in modern times, to take seriously the development of European wine varietals, and it fell to Barboursville to prove what the terroir would support. This list, then, is not ambitious, it presents a sustainable and brilliant legacy - of a multi-decade exploration, experimentation, and validation of our Piedmont's own vocation for European wines.