Barboursville Wines chosen for The Inauguration Conservation Gala |
The Inauguration Conservation Gala planned for Monday evening, January 19th,
to honor President-elect Barack Obama and Mrs Michelle Obama at the historic
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC, has announced its selection of
Barboursville Vineyards Octagon Eighth Edition 2005 as the red wine for the
formal dinner, and Barboursville's Cabernet Franc Reserve 2006 as the red wine
for the reception preceding. Winemaker Luca Paschina will attend on behalf of
Dottore and Mrs Gianni Zonin of Gambellara, Italy, founders and owners of
Barboursville Vineyards since 1976.
This vintage of Cabernet Franc has already won the prestigious Critics Gold
Medal in the Critics Challenge International Wine Competition in California last
summer, and has become the house red wine of the internationally acclaimed
Relais & Châteaux destination, The Inn at Little Washington. Octagon, the winery's
flagship, has previously been served by Governor Kaine to Queen Elizabeth II on
her State visit in 2007, and has won the Governor's Cup Gold Medal and the
Monticello Cup, among more than 20 other gold medals. A wine Barboursville
reserves for creation only in excellent growing seasons, Octagon is the most
consistently honored red wine produced in the Eastern United States.
An occasion benefitting the global conservation work of the International
Conservation Caucus Foundation, it is notable that these wines were selected
from the centuries-old estate of James Barbour, Governor of Virginia during the
War of 1812, which the winery has preserved as a historic landmark while
restoring it to its original agricultural prominence. |
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