2023 Cabernet Franc, Brown Bear Vineyard | 2023 Petit Manseng Concrete | 2021 Petit Verdot, Brown Bear Vineyard
Paradise Springs has received the honor of placing in the Governor’s Cup Case for the past three years in 2025, 2024, and 2023. The 12 wines that are awarded a place in the case are the wines with the highest ratings of all wines entered into the competition each year.
Limited supplies of our three winning wines remain, so we are offering one more chance to buy the best of the best, not only from Paradise, but Virginia, all together in one package at a discount!
The Virginia Governor’s Cup Wine Competition is the most prestigious and notable wine competition in Virginia and is hosted annually by the Virginia Wineries Association in partnership with the Virginia Wine Board and the Virginia Vineyards Association.
We are deeply honored to announce that two Paradise Springs wines have received gold medals in this year’s Virginia Governor’s Cup, signifying our wines as some of the very best in the Commonwealth of Virginia!
To celebrate, we are offering 10% off this four pack, which includes two of each: 2023 Concrete Petit Manseng and 2023 Cabernet Franc, Brown Bear Vineyard!
Aprés means “after” in French. Sparkling wine was the preference of French Kings at festivities and rites of passage, and eventually gained worldwide renown for its role in elegant celebrations. Today it is still used to toast to momentous occasions. Aprés is our tribute to all of those extraordinary moments worth celebrating.
Our Extra Brut Aprés Blanc de Blanc underwent extended tirage aging starting in 2020. The wine shows a rich golden color and brilliant clarity with a fine elegant mousse. The aroma and flavors are fresh and crisp, with clean tree fruits such as golden delicious apple and bosc pear, accented by a touch of brioche and toastiness. The wine is well balanced by the creaminess of the mid-palate and a finish that is long and crisp with beautiful acidity.
Verve is a vibrant and fresh style of Pétillant Naturel sparkling wine, showcased by the bright stone fruit notes on the nose accompanied by a hint of melon. Peach and asian pear come through on the palate first, leading to a rounded mid-palate that finishes off with mouthwatering acidity. Hints of shortbread are nicely cleansed by the pleasing effervescence of the wine. This fresh style of sparkling wine is an unpretentious fun wine to enjoy with good friends and good food. Pétillant Naturel. SPARKLING WINE
Barrel fermenting the Chardonnay allows the small amount of new oak to integrate seamlessly into the wine. This contributes freshness and subtle oak notes, along with yellow apple and ripe quince. The “batonnage” stirring of the lees as the wine ages adds a creaminess that balances out the bright acidity the wine contains as a result of not going through a full Malo-lactic fermentation.
The Reserve Chardonnay is barrel fermented and aged 'sur lie' in French Oak for 10 months, giving this wine more creaminess, roundness and structure than our regular Chardonnay. The Reserve Chardonnay is complexly layered with apple and pear notes up front, leading to a creamy mid-palate, and finishing with a toasty brioche note.
This dry version of Vidal Blanc has aromas of honeysuckle and kumquat that lead to flavors of melon and citrus peel on the palate. This is a vibrant wine with mouth-quenching acidity and great fruitiness upfront, with roundness in the mid palate and length on the finish.
Petit Manseng, which is one of the higher acid varieties that we produce in Virginia, is a natural fit to age in an egg-shaped concrete tank. Concrete is porous like oak, which allows small amounts of oxygen in to help soften the acidity. While it is like oak in its oxygen transfer, it differs because it imparts no wood flavor on the wine, keeping it fresh and fruit. This also adds a gracious amount of weight from the lees stirring that happens due to the egg shape. This is a full-bodied white with aromatic notes of pineapple and jackfruit, followed by ripe pineapple and finishing with a honeyed floral white tea component.
This Viognier was fermented and aged in stainless steel to allow the true character of the variety to shine through. The dominant aromas of honeysuckle and Barlett pear come on strong, followed by flavors of dragon fruit and peach that fill out the palate. This is a bright, fruit-forward version of Viognier with good acidity that makes you salivate.
Petit Manseng is becoming a cornerstone white for Paradise Springs and of high importance for the future of our portfolio. Often made into a late-harvest dessert wine, our version is a dry style with abundant pineapple and kiwi aromas. It is a fuller bodied white, with lots of citrus zest and tropical fruit. For example, the starfruit intensity on the palate is emphasized by zippy acidity that the variety is known for. This abundance of acidity, along with the fuller body from the higher amount of ethanol, will allow this wine to age gracefully over the years.
The stainless steel fermentation allows the true expression of each variety to stand out without oak getting in the way. This process highlights the tropical notes of Petit Manseng and stone fruit aromatics of Viognier that are so prevalent in this wine. Tree fruits like apple and pear stand out on the palate. All of this is followed by a touch of creaminess that adds a weight and also balances the mouth watering acidity.
The aromatics are reminiscent of tropical fruits with petroleum notes that quickly change to tree fruits. A citrus spiciness comes through first on the palate led by the wine’s good acidity, while the residual sugar brings about a lychee and melon note that add a long lingering finish to the wine.
Aprés Rosé is a Brut finish sparkling wine, made traditionally Méthode Champenoise and aged for two years in the cellar. It is fresh, crisp and fruit-forward with wild strawberry notes and a zippy, bright finish.
Aprés means "after" in French. Sparkling wine was the preference of French kings at festivities and rites of passage, and eventually gained worldwide renown for its role at elegant celebrations. Today it is still used to toast momentous occasions. Aprés is our tribute to all those extraordinary moments worth celebrating.
This bright salmon-hued Rosé is bursting with red fruit aromas of strawberry and watermelon. This wine begins with the same strawberry note on the palate and transitions to grapefruit and watermelon on the finish. This is a Provençale style Rosé that is bright and fresh that is balanced with ample acidity that emphasizes the strong fruit on the finish and drinks as smooth as water.
Cabernet Franc is an important varietal wine in Virginia and its history of viticulture as the most widely planted variety in the Commonwealth. This lighter bodied wine has an immense amount of cherry and cola notes, followed by a tea leaf component. The silky texture of the tannins leads to those same notes of cherry and tea notes on the palate, which are emphasized by the subtle acidity as the wine finishes long and dry.
The intent behind this Cabernet Franc is to showcase one of our unique vineyard terroirs in the Shenandoah Valley. We typically blend our different Cabernet Francs together to make our varietal wine, or it goes into the several red blends that we make, but with a new shift in philosophy we’ve decided to all showcase our individual growing sites.
This is a medium-bodied wine with aromatic notes of black cherry and licorice, followed by white pepper spice. The silky texture of the fine grain tannins on the palate lead to flavors of cherry and blueberry. The wine finishes with a touch of baking spice.
The 2023 growing season will go down as one of our ripest and best vintages in modern Virginia winemaking history.The large reduction in overall crop yields simultaneously helped with the increase in quality of the grapes grown.
Merlot has become one of the most widely planted varieties in Virginia and is important to the future of wines in the Commonwealth moving forward. This Merlot starts with notes of raspberry and violet that lead to flavors of red fruit and black tea, finishing with a touch of baking spice. The big, chewy tannins and ample acidity will help this wine age well into the future.
This wine starts out with savory notes of underbrush and olive, followed by wild red fruits like mulberry, and finishes with a bit of black tea. The grippy tannins and bright acidity lift the red fruits forward in this wine and it finishes with a nice soft length that contributes to the great balance of this wine.
40% Petit Verdot, 31% Cabernet Franc and 29% Merlot
This wine is composed of the noble Bordeaux varieties. It is full bodied and complex with a balanced tannin structure that is underpinned by good acidity, which allows it to be age worthy. Red fruit aromas dominate with a subtle floral note, leading the way to flavors of plum and currant wrapped up by touch of cedar on the finish.
45% Petit Verdot, 20% Cabernet Franc, 20% Tannat and 15% Merlot
This is a fuller-bodied Bordeaux blend that gives way to aromas of black fruits followed by cherry cola and anise. This wine contains ample, well-rounded tannins, balanced with good acidity and black currant notes that make for a complex and layered wine with a lengthy finish.
Our flagship blend of 50% Petit Verdot & 50% Tannat
"PVT is a superstar wine built seriously and made for aging. I suspect this wine can last 20 or more years from the vintage date"
-Mark Squires (Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate)
PVT is our full-bodied flagship wine with robust tannins and great acidity across the palate that will age well for years to come. Aromas of black fruits with a subtle floral note come across on the palate as well, along with blackberry and fig, all of which wrap up perfectly with the vanilla finish of the wine. You will find that this vintage of PVT opens up much better after a few hours of decanting and demands hearty foods. This wine is built for the long haul and will age for 10 plus years easily. Only 8 barrels produced.
Tannat is the hardiest variety we produce due to the abundant tannins and acidity, which are also key factors that will allow this wine to age for a long time and hold onto its fruitier notes. Strong aromas of blueberry are followed by a touch of cedar. This leads into the fruit-forward flavors of brambleberries alongside a touch of tobacco, which is followed by a subtle hint of baking spice. The wine is held together with great structure and a full body that finishes with a lot of depth on the palate.
The only indigenous grape to Virginia, Norton was first cultivated in Richmond, VA in 1830 by Daniel Norton. It has the highest concentration of antioxidants in any red grape. This fuller bodied, dark-colored wine has spicy and floral aromatics that lead the way to jammy black fruit notes of blackberry heightened by the vibrant acidity and round tannins, finishing with a subtle vanilla flavor.
Swagger is made in the traditional port-style entirely from Chambourcin, which gives this wine a deep ruby color and distinct black cherry flavor. The wine is a well-balanced drier ruby style with smooth tannins and acidity that help highlight the subtle smokiness and caramel undertones from the bourbon barrel aging.
Starting with Edition II, Swagger has been made in the Solera style of fortified wine making, Although the residual sugar varies from bottling to bottling, this style helps to maintain quality and consistency from year-to-year by blending multiple vintages of the wine together.
