That was 10 years ago. I really like it here. I decided to start a new life here. He married a Maryland girl he met at a wine festival at the Boar s Head Inn in Charlottesville. They have two children.
Tourism is a big part of the winery s business.
Last year, the winery drew 30,000 people to Barboursville, Paschina said. Blending old and new Fred and Beth Nichols brought art to Barboursville about the same time as Zinon brought wine. They found it in C.M. Williams old general store, just past the railroad tracks in what used to be the heart of town. Fred Nichols paints in oil and watercolors, and makes silk-screen prints. His subjects are the woods and streams he has photographed in the nearby mountains, reproduced in stained glass colors.