Barbera Ros News Today

While Pesach is officially Chag Ha’Aviv, the Holiday of the Spring, few people take the theme into consideration when choosing their wines.

The Port of Leonardtown Winery claimed the Maryland Comptroller’s Cup for its 2021 Vintner’s Select White at the 2022 Winemasters Choice Competition.

Spencer developed a taste for port but expressions from California generally were one dimensional, in his opinion, made from international varieties such as zinfandel, petite sirah and cabernet sauvignon. So, Spencer grafted his vineyard over to five varieties native to Portugal’s Douro Valley with bud wood from the University of California, Davis, and sold the grapes to J.W. Morris Winery for its port program. In 1981, Spencer, who grew up on a dairy farm, found out J.W. Morris was going ba...