A Return to Spring 2024


After a long winter, the buds break around the garden and the flowers bloom with the same tenacity they’ve always shown against the gray, rain-laden skies of spring.

I’m renewed after a drought, and turn now fondly to our favorite pursuits: traveling the world and sampling its beer, wine, spirits, food—and the folks who make them.

With a fresh outlook and widened circle of friends on every continent—save Antartica, but you never know—I invite you along with me and my pack as we seek out the best libations and places illuminated by their charms.

Random Row, Charlottesville, Virginia

James River Brewery, Scottsville, Virginia

Northern Neck Brewery, Montross, Virginia

Flying Ace Farm, Lovettsville, Virginia