Sabin Wine Journeys

December 21, 2022.   Our last winery review for 2022 will be Old House Vineyards in Culpeper.   We first visited Old House in Springtime years ago.   Back then, wine tastings happened in the 1890’s renovated farmhouse along a bar that could serve maybe five people.   I don’t recall the wine so much as meeting a group of fresh young girls in their bright prom dresses out to have their formal photos taken down by the pond.   As Neruda said: “Wine stirs the spring, joy grows like a plant.”   Our next visit came years later during an oppressively hot Summer afternoon.   By then Old House was serving mainly from a large outside bar.   But the heat made you feel as if you and your glass would melt into the grass.   Even wines that are perfect for Summer heat were of no avail that day.   This, our third trip, came on the Winter Solstice during a clear and crisp interval between two Arctic blasts.   Old House rotates its serving venues from season to season.   In winter, with less traffic,