By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR
By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
09/09/09
The rolling hills of Southern Maryland have seen an agricultural revolution over the past several decades. Farms with slatted barns and fields once planted with tobacco now sprout housing developments and strip malls. Among the few farms that remain, corn and soybeans are the most common crops.
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If you can only try one of Running Hare’s wines, make it the nonvintage pinot grigio. This award winning wine was hands-down our favorite, and at $19 a bottle, the price is right.
In fact, on a recent trip to Calvert County, we didn't see one tobacco field next to any of the two-lane roads crowded with suburban families in vans skittering to schools, shopping and soccer games. The purpose of our journey was to visit Running Hare Vineyards just outside Prince Frederick, one of five vineyards in this Southern...
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