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Athena Vineyards, in Northumberland County, has introduce two new wines - Lighthouse White and Safe Harbor.

 

 
Fruit of the vine

Athena Vineyards, founded by three "retired" nursing professors, is named for the Greek goddess of war!

Athena Vineyards and Winery, located on Route 200 just south of the Glebe Point Bridge, has just introduced two new wines. Safe Harbor and Athena’s Lighthouse White are now available to taste and to purchase.

After months of waiting, the labels have been approved, and the wine has been bottled. Please stop by the tasting room or order online. Both make wonderful gifts or keepsakes because of their distinctively shaped bottles – a caravel ship and blue lighthouse.

– The two new wines –


SAFE HARBOR (18% fortified red wine made in the Portuguese style) Because of an agreement between the U.S. and the European Community made in 2006 and modified in 2007, anyone who did not have approval for semi-generic wines such as port, sherry and Madeira, before 2007 cannot use these names outside those European geographic regions. US wineries whose labels were approved before 2007 can continue to use the port label, but newer ones like ours cannot – hence the name Safe Harbor.


Safe Harbor is a fortified Chambourcin wine vinted as in Portugal, but with a shorter barrel aging. The richness of the wine is complemented by blue cheese, nuts, dark chocolate, dried fruit, and especially by English Stilton cheese. This distinctive bottle is a type of caravel, a ship with two or three masts used by Europeans beginning in the 15th Century for long exploratory voyages. Caravels were used to bring the first English settlers to Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. ($32.00)


ATHENA’S LIGHTHOUSE WHITE – This is a light, aromatic wine made with Seyval Blanc and other white wine grapes, and comes in a beautiful blue lighthouse shaped bottle. Its tartness is balanced with 1% residual sugar, making it a good wine for sipping or paired with seafood and white meats. Alcohol 12.5% by volume. ($20.00)