A taste of Prince William County, Virginia wine history
By: by Raymond Vance Olszewski
Publisher: Olszewski Enterprises
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farmington, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780615426488
Subjects: Wine and wine making; History
Description: This book takes you on a tour that includes the Manassas Battlefield where a winery once operated and to nearby Haymarket, VA where wine making and viticulture once thrived during the 1800s. The author then takes you to the City of Manassas and on to Washington, DC where a wine maker there made a prize winning wine from grapes grown in the City of Manassas in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The business of making spirits in Prince William County; title: Haymarket; title: Prince William County's viticulture center; title: Wine made from Manassas grapes win a bronze medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition; title: Prince William County's first operational winery established on the Battlefield; title: 100 years later viticulture returns once again to Prince William County; title: Summary; title: Virginia wine history quiz.