My latest Adventure in Virginia Wineries brought me to Potomac Point Winery in Stafford, Virginia. I first visited Potomac Point seven years ago, right after it opened.  A lot can change in 7 years, so when Chelsea Sparaco, Potomac Point’s Sales & Marketing Manager, invited me to come out for a tasting, I was excited to revisit.

My girlfriend and I are getting pretty savvy at Virginia Wine tasting.  Virginia wineries are changing and evolving, so we have to change and evolve with them.  Gone (well, mostly gone) are the days of bringing a picnic to a winery.  You can still picnic outside (most of the time), but bringing food inside a winery has gone the way of the corded phone.  A lot of Virginia wineries now have an on-site restaurant (or they sell their own gnoshes), which means no outside food allowed.  To avoid surprises, call ahead.  Tasting wine on an empty stomach is a bad idea for me, so I always try to eat something beforehand.  Potomac Point has its own restaurant — Le Grand Cru Bistro — which is handy because there aren’t many food options close to Potomac Point (save for a guy selling crabs out of the back of his truck on the corner — and we weren’t really in the mood for truck crabs), so Bistro it was!

Le Bistro gets a lot of lunch traffic, especially from the nearby Quantico Marine Corps Base, and it really started to fill up while we were there — I’m glad we came when they opened at 11:30!  Our waiter, Jonathan, was a real charmer — we got to watch him gracefully and adeptly handle a large group of not so graceful “ladies who lunch”.

My girlfriend and I both opted for these tasty salads, but we took a pass on the suggested wine parings since we were getting ready to do a separate wine tasting.

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