Loudoun County:
“In November 2012 Ben Renshaw walked onto a piece of land in
Purcellville and knew immediately he had walked onto his next vineyard… He
immediately knew he wanted the land because of his more than a decade of
experience growing grapes. It was a feeling he got, that could only come from
having walked countless vineyards and having seen rows of grapes destroyed by
frost.
When he discusses the 150-acre plot of land he bought,
Renshaw uses words like domed and airy. He explains the space the way you would
expect a sommelier at a fine dining establishment to describe a fine Malbec or
Cab Franc. How he built the business is anything but elegant though: 70-hour work
weeks doing what he calls ‘young-man's work’ and using the few natural
advantages he had in front of him.
The business just started to turn a profit this past year
and he took a week-long vacation, his first in a decade.”
~Writes Ben Hancock of the Loudoun Times
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