{"title":"Early Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eVirginia has a history of winemaking. Unfortunately, it’s mostly a history of failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis tradition was founded by Thomas Jefferson, who fell in love with red wine while traveling in Europe and wanted to try making it at Monticello. But he failed. He planted various Old World grapes but never figured out how to defeat phylloxera and the rot that Virginia’s humid conditions threatened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday we have the know-how to grow Old World grapes in Virginia. And new blood, like Early Mountain Vineyards, is showing that it’s worth doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEarly Mountain is a new winery, launched in 2012. Virginia is big and has varied soils and altitudes and Early Mountain is taking advantage of this variety to experiment and discover what works. They make some big, rich wines in a concentrated and powerful style. But the most interesting wines (to us, anyway) are fresh and lovely and not at all in the style we expected of Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/early-mountain.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}