 Paradise Springs Winery entrance
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 Paradise Springs Winery tasting room
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 Carolyn Miller and Cyndi Reichardt
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 We assemble outside the tasting room
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 We assemble outside the tasting room
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 We head to the introduction to the winery and first tasting
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 Our tour leader Jayme gives us a history of the winery
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 Jayme pouts the first tasting for Carolyn Miller
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 On the otherside of the wall was the original cabin
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 A colonial fire pit
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 The original living quarters
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 Rob Stites looking over the family's furnishings
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 In the original tasting room in the basement of the house, Jayme pours a sample
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 Daria & Jeff Parnes in the original tasting room
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 Greg Allen, Muzaffar Zaffar and Seema Garg in the original tasting room
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 Barbara McCullough listens as Jamye explains the type of wine we are to taste
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 Cyndi and John Reichardt with our section chair, Vladimir Nesterovich, in the original tasting room
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 How corks are stamped from a piece of cork
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 Jayme presenting a white wine for tasting
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 A sense of the size of the original tasting room
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 We head to the one acre of vines that was required by Fairfax County for the vineyard to qualify for its tax reduction
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 Listening to Jayme explaning how the vines are managed, Vladimir Nesterovich, Rob Stites, Muzaffar Zaffar, Seema Garg and Barbara McCullough
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 How the vines are supported
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 Listening to Jayme explaning how the vines are managed, Muzaffar Zaffar, Rob Stites, Barbara McCullough, Seema Garg, Connie Broadie and Gene Allen
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 We gathered in a semi-circle before the vines and Jamye
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 Jeff Parnes, Kenneth Rapuano, Vladimir Nesterovich, Connie Broadie, and others listen to Jayme
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 Our winery tour group
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 Roses are planted at the end of the vine rows to act as canaries in a coal mine. If something is attacking the vines, the roses will show the ill effects before the vines themselves
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 Our group gathers at the entrances to where the wine/grapes are delivered from other vineyards for processing
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 The press used to extract the liquid from the grapes
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