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History comes alive in the vineyards of Virginia

Tim Fish
Issue: June 15, 2005

Some places have a humble beauty, a quality that hooks you and never quite lets you go. The wine region in Charlottesville, Va., is a place like that, set in the thick woods and gentle foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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