The 2025 Winery Challenge

Over the course of 2025, we posted on our visits to over 30 Virginia wineries and vineyards.  

The clues below relate to some trait or feature about a winery or the owners or their wines.  It’s a testament to the uniqueness of Virginia’s wineries.  Match the winery or the person to the clue to WIN!.  For example, if the clue were "Clean Wine," the match would be Arterra Wines.  

The person who gets the most correct matches to the clues by Saturday, January 10th 2026 will get a congratulatory gift card worth the paper it’s printed on plus the stamp OR a wonderful email of appreciation.  


You can post your answers to the POST A COMMENT, below:

https://vawinejourneys.blogspot.com  

OR

If you don’t have your GOOGLE account and password handy, you can send your answers to me on FACEBOOK.  Be sure to identify yourself for the prize.

Best of Luck to You All!   Here are the Clues 

CLUE

WINERY

1.  Vidal Blanc Heaven

a. Ankida Ridge Vineyards 

2.  “Chicken N Dumplins”

b. Terra Nebulo

3.  Cuckoo, VA

c. AJ Greeley

4.  Vineyards where

“the earth and the sky meet.”

d. Caihailian Vineyards

5.  Roger’s “worst wine, ever.”

e. Vint Hill Craft Winery

6.  Tasting Room in a greenhouse

f. Everleigh Vineyards

7.  Notable official who began

career teaching at the Duke

Ellington School for the Arts

g. Domaine Fortier

8.  Winery dedicated to highwaymen.

h. Hardware Hills

9.  Winery abutting “Temperance Landing.”

i. Reitano Vineyards

10. Formerly “Monitoring Station No. 1”

– a Cold War listening post.

j. Stella Rosa L’Originale Black

 

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