Rocky Knob Appellation Library

(news items and features of current interest regarding activity within the Rocky Knob appellation)

___, "Piedmont Virginia Community College offers wine program" ( Virginia Farm Bureau Federation: July 21, 2005 )

___, "Automated System Predicts Grape Yields " ( USDA - Agricultural Research Service: April 21, 2006 )

___, "Vineyard opens despite new law" ( The Roanoke Times: July 21, 2006 )

___, "Can Wine Be Organic?" ( Balanced Living Magazine )

___, "Jefferson's Virginia: America's hottest new wine country" ( Cable News Network: October 5, 2006 )

___, "For nation's vintners, days of wine are rosy " ( San Francisco Chronicle: 01/18/2007 )

___, "New Winery Boom Spans North America " ( Wines & Vines: 01/22/2007 )

___, "Virginia Earns High Marks as National Food and Wine Destination" ( PRWeb: 02/16/2007 )

___, "Winemaking branches across nation " ( UNION-TRIBUNE : 09/17/2007 )

___, "Virginia grows into a wine destination" ( MSNBC: 10/29/2007 )

___, "Virginia Wine Trails point visitors toward vineyards" ( Pittsburgh Tribune Review: 11/11/2007 )

___, "Lynchburg man sees big future in Virginia wine" ( Lynchburg News Advance : 07/13/2008 )

___, "Virginia’s wine industry has matured" ( Virginia Business.com: 10/01/2008 )

Heeger, Jack, "U.S.-European agreement will keep wine flowing across the Atlantic" ( Napa Valley Register: March 16, 2006 )

McIntyre, Dave, "A Grape Virginia Vintners Can Love" ( The Washington Post Company: 04/01/2009 )

(a cumulative and permanent repository of writings which reflect the development of the Rocky Knob appellation as a distinct winegrowing region. Submission and selection criteria for placement of material in the Permanent Collection)

Adams, Leon D., THE WINES OF AMERICA, THIRD EDITION" ( McGraw-Hill: 1985 )

Ambers, Rebecca, "Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton and the Origin of the Norton Grape" ( American Wine Society Journal: Fall 2004 )

Cass, Bruce, et.al., THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE WINES OF NORTH AMERICA" ( Oxford University Press: 2000 )

Ensrud, Barbara, AMERICAN VINEYARDS" ( Stewart, Tabori & Chang: 1988 )

Wolf, Tony, et.al., "COMMERCIAL GRAPE VARIETIES FOR VIRGINIA (PDF)" ( Virginia Cooperative Extension: 1999 )