Blending wine is an old practice that’s newly popular. Some Virginia vintners are embracing it.

“I wished to point out that Virginia could make age-worthy white wines of distinction,” Paschina mentioned in early August at a luncheon for wine and journey writers, the place he poured the Nascent as a sneak peek earlier than its September launch. Aged practically three years, first in massive Austrian oak barrels, then chrome steel tanks and eventually in bottle, the wine was recent and energetic, displaying maturity greater than exuberance. It must be fascinating to style for years to come back.