Despite some recent rain, Virginia remains in a drought—the latest insult for vineyards where grape crops were crushed by an early freeze followed by extreme temperatures. WMRA’s Christine Kueter reports.
[clanging glass bottles and hydraulic presses]
They’re bottling red wine at Michael Shaps Winery near Scottsville. The petit verdot grapes—picked two summers ago at Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards in Albemarle County—were brought here to be crushed, aged, and, now, bottled…