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15 May 2022 - Visit to Paradise Springs Winery

We assemble outside the tasting room	We assemble outside the tasting room	We head to the introduction to the winery and first tasting
Our tour leader Jayme gives us a history of the winery	Jayme pouts the first tasting for Carolyn Miller	Jayme presenting a white wine for tasting
We head to the one acre of vines that was required by Fairfax County for the vineyard to qualify for its tax reduction	Listening to Jayme explaning how the vines are managed, Vladimir Nesterovich, Rob Stites, Muzaffar Zaffar, Seema Garg and Barbara McCullough	Listening to Jayme explaning how the vines are managed, Muzaffar Zaffar, Rob Stites, Barbara McCullough, Seema Garg, Connie Broadie and Gene Allen
We gathered in a semi-circle before the vines and Jamye	Our winery tour group	Our group gathers at the entrances to where the wine/grapes are delivered from other vineyards for processing
Wine is stored and aged in the basement of the new tasting facility	A oak wine casket from France	Jamye points out features of the main tasting room
Wine cask from France	A sense of the size of the original tasting room	Jeff Parnes taking pictures of wine caskets
Paradise Springs Winery tasting room	Carolyn Miller and Cyndi Reichardt	On the otherside of the wall was the original cabin
A colonial fire pit	The original living quarters	Rob Stites looking over the family's furnishings
In the original tasting room in the basement of the house, Jayme pours a sample	Daria & Jeff Parnes in the original tasting room	Greg Allen, Muzaffar Zaffar and Seema Garg in the original tasting room
Barbara McCullough listens as Jamye explains the type of wine we are to taste	Cyndi and John Reichardt with our section chair, Vladimir Nesterovich, in the original tasting room	How corks are stamped from a piece of cork
How the vines are supported	Jeff Parnes, Kenneth Rapuano, Vladimir Nesterovich, Connie Broadie, and others listen to Jayme	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
The press used to extract the liquid from the grapes	Jayme and Barbara McCullough	Jayme and Kenneth Rapuano
Jamye explains the wine making and aging process	A row of metal wine aging canisters	The wine is packaged here
Upstairs, wine casks are stored next to the main wine tasting room	Additional metal wine aging cylinders and casks	Our crew in the top storage facility: Barbara McCullough, Seema Garg, Muzaffar Zaffar, Daria Parnes and others
A wine cask from a different French provider	A wine cask from a different French provider	A wine cask from a different French provider
A painting of Thomas Jefferson, the father of American Vinoculture, hangs in the main tasting room	Jeff Parnes buying some wine to bring home	Our crew in the main tasting room before we headed out for lunch, including Gene Allen, Connie Broadie, Muzaffer Zaffer, Daria Parnes and Vladimir Nesterovich
Paradise Springs Winery entrance