Local wineries may have taken a beating during record-breaking snowstorms, but according to wine experts, a good smack down makes the commonwealth of Virginia the ideal tourist wine spot.

“Great wines like to suffer,” said Jim Barker, president of the Washington Wine Academy. “They like to fight for it, and that adds to the character of the grapes.”

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