Wandering Through Virginia's Vineyards

by Walker Elliott Rowe

There is a gold rush underway in Virginia. But the treasure under pursuit is not a precious metal. Rather, it is the grape. From Leesburg in the north down to Roanoke in the south, dot-com millionaires, celebrities, retired civil servants, and apple farmers are turning fallow pastures and orchards into row after row of European fine wine grapes.

292 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2006

About the author

Walker Rowe is an American living in Cyprus. He has written 3 books on Wine, in addition to another 8 or so books on technology and one on Chile. Some of the tech books were ghost written by Walker.

His knowledge of wine comes from having planted two vineyards in Virginia and having worked in different wineries in Virginia and Chile and having been partner in another. His knowledge of technology comes from having worked as a computer programmer and tech writer.

Walker is retired and in his free time teaches teenage children computer programming from his online school https://hypatiaacademy.io/en/index.html .

His hobbies are open water ocean swimming, tennis, and reading.

Walker is a lifelong reader. His influences include The New Yorker magazine, Shakespeare, David Foster Wallace, Hunter S. Thompson, Bertrand Russell, and Cormac McCarthy.