It’s Regional Wine Week! How Are You Going To Celebrate?

Marguerite Barrett
Contributing Writer

The week of October 11-15 has been designated Regional Wine Week 2009 by the folks at DrinkLocalWine.com, and they are encouraging bloggers all over the US (outside of the big wine regions of California, Oregon and Washington) to celebrate the week by highlighting their region’s local wines in their posts this week.

As loyal Vino Verve readers know, we are ALL about local wines, and while we celebrate local wines all year long, we’re especially excited to participate in regional wine week.  In addition to our regular posts, look for little extras thrown in – perhaps even a revisiting of some of our favorite local wines throughout the week.  We’ll, of course, post everything here on Vino Verve, but will also send the link to DrinkLocalWine.com so it can be included in the week’s listings.

But enough about how we’re going to celebrate Regional Wine Week, what are you going to do?   Pick up something from your local liquor/package store?  Finally make that trip to a local winery (we know you’ve been thinking about it for some time…)?  Throw a dinner party featuring regional wines?   If you’re not sure where to start, just stop by your local liquor store and ask for local or regional wines – odds are they have a section.  And if you’re interested in wineries, Google your state name and “wine trail” – or check out the Win(e)ding Roads section here on Vino Verve (under the adventures tab) for links to posts about wineries we’ve visited in our travels to date.

Whatever you do – we want to hear about it – and better yet, we’ll publish it!  If you don’t have a wine blog, but are interested in celebrating your local wine(s) during Regional Wine Week, send me a write-up of what you drank, where you found it, and why you liked it (or not), and we’ll publish it here on Vino Verve and link it to DrinkLocalWine.com.  If you do have a blog, we’d love to get the link, and, of course, don’t forget to send the link to DrinkLocalWine.com.

Send any submissions and/or photos to marguerite@vinoverve.com, and I’ll get them posted.  And check in often with both VinoVerve.com and DrinkLocalWines.com for updated posts celebrating Regional Wine Week.

Salut!

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