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Napa Valley’s 2021s and 2022s

02/21/2024
Jeb Dunnuck

This report on the 2021s from Napa Valley focuses on numerous larger consultant tastings, including tasting with Philippe Melka, Thomas Rivers Brown, Aaron Pott, Mike Smith, and Tony Biagi, as well as samples tasted at my office in Colorado. Read More

The Napa Wine Project: Amlés Wines

05/03/2023
The Napa Wine Project

This Napa Valley brand is built around Scott and Sharon’s interests and passions in life including wine, history, art and charitable giving. This Napa Valley brand is built around Scott and Sharon’s interests and passions in life including wine, history, art and charitable giving. The word Amlés was created by spelling Selma backwards and adding an accent mark over the letter e. Selma is the name of their 200+ year old residence, an antebellum mansion in Leesburg, Virginia. Read More

Amles' First Chapter: With Roots in Virginia, Bordeaux and the Napa Valley, A New Wine Label Continues a Centuries-old Story

06/03/2021
Garden & Gun Magazine

It all stated with an idea, sparked over a bottle of wine. In 2016, philanthropists Scott Miller and Sharon Virts purchased Selma Mansion, a dilapidated nineteenth-century property in Loudoun County, Virginia. When the renovation work was complete, the duo spent many evenings overlooking the grounds with a glass of wine in hand, and on one such night, an idea took root of for a way to marry their passions: history, philanthropy, art and fine wine. Read More

Scott Miller of Amlés Wines Wins Wine, Beer & Spirits Industry Awards Napa County Winery Owner Category

12/14/2020
North Bay Business Journal

The winner of the Napa County winery owner category winner in North Bay Business Journal’s beverage alcohol industry awards says his wife and he plan to open a winery and devote the profits to charitable work. Read More