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15 May 2022 - ASQ Northern Virginia Section 0511 Ranger Outing to Paradise Springs Winery

Short Narrative/Description:

• Participating in it will require driving to the location and spending time there comparable in duration to regular ASQ meetings plus meal time if you stay for the meal.
• There will be no video streaming from this event, so you would have to come in person to participate.
• This is an educational event, so it carries an award of 0.5 RU as any other ASQ Section Meeting.
• This event requires registration and payment through ePly. You will not have a spot on the tour unless you have paid through ePly. There are only 20 spots for this tour. Registration on ePly will close once the 20 spots have been filled. See further details below**.

• The Paradise Springs Winery's web site is here: https://www.paradisespringswinery.com
• It is located at 13219 Yates Ford Road, Clifton, VA 20124
• The property was originally part of a 1716 land grant from Lord Fairfax to the Kincheloe family, then passed down through generations.
• It features a 1700s log cabin, renovated in 1955 by a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright.

• The site's local guidance can be seen here: https://www.paradisespringswinery.com/Home - neither masks nor vaccinations are required.
• ASQ no longer requires signed waivers.
• Thus, by participating, you have agreed that this is acceptable to you.

• 11:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. – Arrival, registration, and ticketing at the podium located as soon as you enter the tasting room.
  • Meet Carolyn or her delegate or ask for reservation by Carolyn Miller and ASQ.
• 12:00 p.m. – Tour of the Winery, including a walking tour of the historic cabin, vineyard, production facility, and barrel room, accompanied by an optional tasting of seven wines.
  • The tour will start on time and will NOT wait for late arrivals.
• 1:30 p.m. – ASQ Section 0511 Meal (optional).
• You can walk the grounds on your own after that.

• ASQ Section 0511 will arrange a FREE meal from a traditional provider (such as Panera Bread, Subway, or other, details are being finalized and not available at the time of this writing).
• If you are not interested in the FREE meal, then your food options are:
  • Purchase your meal at your own expense from the Winery's Artisan Food Truck available on site.
  • Visit Winery's building to purchase prepackaged cheeses, meats, spreads, crackers, and breads.
  • Bring in your own food, which the Winery allows (but not your own alcohol).
  • You may decide not to participate in the meal.

  We assemble outside the tasting room	We assemble outside the tasting room	We head to the introduction to the winery and first tasting
  Our tour leader Jayme gives us a history of the winery	Jayme pouts the first tasting for Carolyn Miller	Jayme presenting a white wine for tasting
  We head to the one acre of vines that was required by Fairfax County for the vineyard to qualify for its tax reduction	Listening to Jayme explaning how the vines are managed, Vladimir Nesterovich, Rob Stites, Muzaffar Zaffar, Seema Garg and Barbara McCullough	Listening to Jayme explaning how the vines are managed, Muzaffar Zaffar, Rob Stites, Barbara McCullough, Seema Garg, Connie Broadie and Gene Allen
  We gathered in a semi-circle before the vines and Jamye	Our winery tour group	Our group gathers at the entrances to where the wine/grapes are delivered from other vineyards for processing
  Wine is stored and aged in the basement of the new tasting facility	A oak wine casket from France	Jamye points out features of the main tasting room
  Wine cask from France	A sense of the size of the original tasting room	Jeff Parnes taking pictures of wine caskets
  Paradise Springs Winery tasting room	Carolyn Miller and Cyndi Reichardt	On the otherside of the wall was the original cabin
  A colonial fire pit	The original living quarters	Rob Stites looking over the family's furnishings
  In the original tasting room in the basement of the house, Jayme pours a sample	Daria & Jeff Parnes in the original tasting room	Greg Allen, Muzaffar Zaffar and Seema Garg in the original tasting room
  Barbara McCullough listens as Jamye explains the type of wine we are to taste	Cyndi and John Reichardt with our section chair, Vladimir Nesterovich, in the original tasting room	How corks are stamped from a piece of cork
  How the vines are supported	Jeff Parnes, Kenneth Rapuano, Vladimir Nesterovich, Connie Broadie, and others listen to Jayme	Roses are planted at the end of the vine rows to act as canaries in a coal mine. If something is attacking the vines, the roses will show the ill effects before the vines themselves
  The press used to extract the liquid from the grapes	Jayme and Barbara McCullough	Jayme and Kenneth Rapuano
  Jamye explains the wine making and aging process	A row of metal wine aging canisters	The wine is packaged here
  Upstairs, wine casks are stored next to the main wine tasting room	Additional metal wine aging cylinders and casks	Our crew in the top storage facility: Barbara McCullough, Seema Garg, Muzaffar Zaffar, Daria Parnes and others
  A wine cask from a different French provider	A wine cask from a different French provider	A wine cask from a different French provider
  A painting of Thomas Jefferson, the father of American Vinoculture, hangs in the main tasting room	Jeff Parnes buying some wine to bring home	Our crew in the main tasting room before we headed out for lunch, including Gene Allen, Connie Broadie, Muzaffer Zaffer, Daria Parnes and Vladimir Nesterovich
  Paradise Springs Winery entrance