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We’re off for a father-son weekend of camping, hiking and fishing. Tentative plans include:
The Luray Zoo this afternoon on the way in.
This hike on Saturday.
Climbing Old Rag Mountain on Sunday.
We are camping right on the Shenandoah River, so they’ll be plenty of early morning and evening fishing right from the campsite, and board game in […]

This famous saying, attributed to the Latin poet Pliny the Elder, means “in wine there is truth.” The traditional explanation being that a bottle of wine has an uncanny (and rather unfortunate at times) tendency to reveal the true hue of our emotions, which we’d otherwise prefer to conceal. We’ve all experienced this. After a few too many glasses, the gig is up and we have professed our undying love to joe schmo, or told our in-laws that we regifted that horrid cardigan at last year’s White Elephant party. I, however, would like to offer a new and revised interpretation of this adage. What of the notion that a bottle of wine reveals to US its true “emotions,” if you will? Haven’t you ever confronted a mild and well balanced pinot grigio, a fiery tempranillo, or how about a bold and overbearing Bordeaux? Drinking wine is an intimate process wherein the grapes expose their terroir, or their special geographic characteristics, to us. Take for example, an Italian grape varietal known as Nebbiolo, (from which we get Barolo and Barbaresco). Considering the consecutive rainy and foggy days this week, it is fitting to discuss this particular wine. What truth is there to uncover in a bottle of Nebbiolo, in say, our 2003 Benotto Monferrato Rosso? For starters, let us dabble a bit in the etymology of the term Nebbiolo. In Italian, “la nebbia” means fog. Nebbiolo then means foggy. The Nebbiolo grape comes from the Piedmonte Region in Northwestern Italy, which literally translates to “at the foot of the hills”. It is a region of castles and vineyards enveloped in a blanket of fog at the foot of the French Alps. Around harvest time, in October, a dense fog hovers low to the piedmontese earth. It is rumored that the grapes are picked in the early morning hours of the autumn when the dew from this fog covers the grapes. Hence derives their name “nebbiolo” from the nebbia or fog that blankets the harvests.
And so the next time you enjoy a bottle of wine, be it a red, white or rose, consider what truths the veritable vines might reveal to you…and remember that “…in aqua sanitas.”

Real estate attorney and manager of Ekko Title in Fredericksburg, Michele Freemyer will join us on the Borrow Smart and Retire Rich radio program this coming Thursday at 9:00am.  The show airs from 9:00am to 10:00am on the Fredericksburg Live segment of AM 1230.  Michele will be available to field questions regarding real estate, settlements […]

The Republican National Committee had to have known that Minneapolis/St. Paul – its 2008 convention site – ranks among the gayest metros in the U.S…right?
Apparently, this discovery was late to reach the RPV.  From an AP dispatch, posted this morning:

The publisher of a Twin Cities magazine says he was caught by surprise after a group […]

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Condolences go out to the many friends and family of two groundbreaking entrepreneurs in the Fredericksburg restaurant business this week.- 8/18 Samuel T. Emory of Sammy T’s fame- 8/22 Rob Ivy of Sunken Well(c)2008 InTheBurg.info
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This will be a 3-day weekend for many in folks in the U.S. While you enjoy some craft beer with friends, please be responsible and safe. In Richmond, the Capital Ale House “Beer Geek Week” continues through Sunday, August 31. In Fredericksburg, the Blu…

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