Wine and a View

A beautiful day along the Blue Ridge Parkway and at Chateau Morrisette. Got a bottle of my favorite wine called Our Dog Blue and had a glass or two... more

by Darren Fisher

Title

Wine and a View

Artist

Darren Fisher

Medium

Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art

Description

A beautiful day along the Blue Ridge Parkway and at Chateau Morrisette. Got a bottle of my favorite wine called Our Dog Blue and had a glass or two and ejoyed the view. I used textures and effects to create a painterly look of the image.
William Morissette began experimenting with grape growing in the early 1970s on the advice of the Virginia Tech Fruit and Science Department.[1] After graduating from Mississippi State University's Viticulture and Entology program, David Morrisette returned to Virginia and ripped out the vines that his father planted.[1] In 1978, William, Nancy and David Morrisette planted the first vines, starting the Chateau Morrisette Winery.[2] Chateau Morrisette was one of the six wineries started in Virginia prior to 1980, making it one of the oldest wineries in the state.[3] David Morrisette became Ch�teau Morrisette�s first official winemaker. In 1982, the first commercial wines were produced, beginning with approximately 1,500 gallons.[2] Wine production is now in excess of 60,000 cases.[2] The Winery underwent an expansion and modernization in 1999, including a new wine production facility and hospitality center. Blue Ridge Timberwrights constructed a building from salvaged timber from the St. Marie River and from a Seattle warehouse to create one of the largest salvaged timber frame buildings in North America: 32,365 square feet (3,006.8 m2) with over 132,000 board feet of recycled Douglas-fir timbers.

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October 8th, 2014