Move over Napa Valley, Northern Virginia is now wine country

If world-renowned winemaker Robert Mondavi was right when he said that “making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art,” then there must be a lot of artists in Virginia.

Northern Virginia was named America’s next great wine region by The Wall Street Journal’s wine columnist Lettie Teague.

“What’s special is that it’s here,” said wine expert Dave McIntyre. “We don’t say ‘I’m going to wine country’ and get on a plane and fly to San Francisco like we did 20 or 30 years ago...