Barboursville Vineyards is Virginia’s first wine estate to be dedicated to growing European, vitis vinifera wine varietals in Virginia. Planted in 1976, the vineyard was founded and continues to be owned by Gianni Zonin from Gambellara, Italy, who is a 7th-generation winegrower and whose family’s enterprise, Casa Vinicola Zonin, has been in viticulture since 1821. Barboursville is Zonin’s sole winemaking endeavor outside of Italy. The property is the core of an extensive 18th Century Virginia plantation. Luca Paschina, Winemaker-General Manager since 1990, is a holder of a degree in oenology from Instituto Umberto in Alba. Paschina oversees day-to-day vineyard operations with viticulturist Fernando Franco, who has been at Barboursville since 1998. Their taste, bred of centuries of European custom, is for wine of great companionability with food, of elegant expression throughout a meal and, ideally, of longevity in the cellar, with harmonious balance. In Barboursville they explore the deeper story of what terroir, together with traditional winemaking techniques, reveal as unexpected or rarely expressed dimensions in several internationally esteemed wine varietals. All continue to unfold with ever-greater distinction.