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Old Smokey BBQ

Old Smokey BBQ

Are you looking for some award winning BBQ ?
We are bringing our BBQ offerings to local farmers markets – where you can taste the difference in person and bring some home to your own family .
Tuesdays : Norman ’ s Farm Market Jones Mill Rd at East-West Hwy Chevy Chase • 3-6 pm Thursdays : Norman ’ s Farm Market 5511 Massachusetts Ave Bethesda • 3-6 pm Saturdays : Kensington Farm Market Sundays : Bethesda Central Farm Market
www . oldsmokeybbq . us

Too Busy to Cook ?

Let us prepare meals for you and for those special folks you care about ! Delicious homemade meals , delivered fresh !
EAT Well be well
We look forward to serving you !
202-438-7876 www . ew-bw . com
Mark Giganti processes 61 Vineyard ’ s Chardonnay grapes in 2022 .
barrel . At the end of our process wine … not too fancy , keeping it of fermentation and aging we got simple while growing the business .” everything bottled . We had five
Pam talks about how 61 Vineyard is just the fourth on-farm different wines for our first vintage and we invited folks from Maryland winery in Montgomery County . Wineries Association over to taste “ When people come here and enjoy all of them , and they were blown our award-winning wines , we hope away . And especially that white they will understand that we live in blend left from the frost . They a great area to grow grapes .” Pam thought it was amazing and urged continues , “ The Maryland wine us to enter it into the Maryland industry is coming into its own Governor ’ s Cup . ‘ Really ...?’ we right now . I can ’ t tell you how many thought , surprised , this was our people are surprised when they first vintage .” drink our wines . And the common
So we did , and we won a response ...? “ I like them all !’” double gold medal ! That wine we
And for Mark ? “ We ’ re straightforward simple people with a really call Pleasant Plains ,” says Pam . The name comes from a historic plaque good product . And hopefully the in Damascus where the area is kids and grandkids will take it over referred to as the “‘ pleasant plains a decade or so down the road .” of Damascus .’”
These days Mark is dreaming of a
Mark says all the grapes that time when “ I can just walk across are not grown in their vineyard the street to the vineyard and not come from Maryland . The longterm goal is that all the grapes in and two hours on the way home .”
commute for two hours on the way
at some point will be fully estate Hopefully that day comes soon . grown once everything planted . “ If we get to 5,000 cases a year Check out all the activities at 61 that will be the max . We need to Vineyard including on-site food trucks , be profitable , and we ’ ve been vey music and sunset yoga with wine . fortunate that we ’ ve produced good www . 61vineyard . com