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About two weeks ago, John Landis from Vynecrest Winery in Breinigsville and Elaine Pivinski from Franklin Hill Winery in Bangor attended a taping of the RCN show "Community Spotlight."

During the interview they discussed the founding of the wine trail more than a decade ago, the history of their respective wineries, and the remaining three fall Lehigh Valley Wine Trail events - Harvest Weekend, Chambourcin Weekend and Nouveau Weekend.

Both winery owners did a great job with the interview by host Dan Mowdy and were more than happy to answer his many questions. We get to see the results of their work when the program airs tonight at 7 p.m. on RCN channel 4. It also re-airs on Thursday night at the same time and channel. So if you miss it tonight, there's always a chance to catch it in a few days.

If you have RCN as your cable service, set your VCR or Tivo now to tape tonight's episode and then come back here tomorrow and tell us what you thought of it.

A wine blogger visits the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail

Our friend and wine blogger Paul Vigna recently visited the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail which he has been writing about for years but not really visited.

On a recent Saturday in June, Paul informed us that he would be driving through our region of eastern Pennsylvania on his way to visit family in New Jersey and would have a limited amount of time for winery visits, tours and tastings.

So he chose to visit Clover Hill and Vynecrest wineries which are located just a mile apart from each other in Breinigsville. At Clover Hill he joined a group on a walking tour of the vineyard and winery followed by tastings with co-owner Kari Skrip.

Then he visited with Jan and John Landis of Vynecrest for a peek downstairs in their Vyneskeller, followed by a round of wine tastings at the upstairs tasting bar and a little soccer match watching in the background. All-in-all we think Paul enjoyed his visit and will come back as soon as possible to visit the other seven wineries on the trail.

Paul's main profession is as the sports editor for Harrisburg's Patriot-News daily newspaper. But his love is wine. So his blog, The Wine Classroom, has its home on the PennLive.com web site of his employer. Here's a link to his first blog post about his recent visit, one on Vynecrest entitled "It's the battle of the Chardonnays at Vynecrest Winery." Give it a read and tell us what you think of it.