Loudoun County Artist, Antonia Walker, Captures the Journey’s Essence with Label Artwork

For Immediate Release  
August 8, 2007
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Waterford, Virginia – The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership recently unveiled its private label wine collection created by Prince Michel Vineyard & Winery, an award-winning winery located in the heart of Virginia wine country along the Journey Through Hallowed Ground (JTHG). The distinctly bottled Chardonnay and Cabernet Franc, capture the essence of the Journey, a 175-mile historic corridor between Gettysburg, PA and Monticello, VA.

Each bottle of JTHG wine features a specially designed label with a bucolic landscape painted by famed artist, Antonia Walker, who created the special scene in oil and then graciously donated the finished piece for this and other efforts of the JTHG Partnership. A recent visiting artist to the American Academy in Rome, Walker is known for her paintings of the Virginia countryside, as well as images of Italy and France. Walker’s work has been represented in many collections including the Arts-in-Embassy program of the State Department, in a traveling NASA exhibit celebrating the space program and in many corporate and private collections throughout the United States.

"I wanted to create this painting for the Journey specifically because I am a landscape painter, and this landscape has been inspiring me for years," said Walker. "All of the different colors of farmland, the golden fields of hay, the blue green fields of rye and alfalfa, the mountains, the trees, it just feeds my soul. The JTHG Partnership is a brilliant idea, and I wanted to support it."

Prince Michel’s owners have generously offered to donate $5 from the sale of each bottle of JTHG special label wine to support the JTHG Partnership’s educational and heritage tourism programs. “Our collaboration with Prince Michel Vineyard & Winery gives the JTHG Partnership a new way to celebrate and support the vital fabric of American history found in this region,” said Cate Magennis Wyatt, President of the JTHG Partnership. “Now we can encourage visitors to take—and taste—the Journey.”

The wine may be purchased through Prince Michel’s website, www.princemichel.com or at the winery, located at 154 Winery Lane, Leon, VA.