Vine & Vendor Spring Market!

March 20, 2025 / News

Hi All,

On Saturday March 29 from 11am-4pm Links Bridge will be featuring the Vine & Vendor Spring Market, organized by Dysfunctional Housewives, producers of the famous Salted Caramel Coffee Bean Bark and numerous other delicacies.

The Market will include other vendors too, and Paul Zelenka will be here from 2-4pm to provide live music.

Come on by, have a glass of wine, take in the Vine & Vendor Spring Market, and enjoy the beginnings of spring!

Cheers,
Bob & Joan

 

 

 

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Frederick County Craft Beverage Passports on Sale Today!

March 20, 2025 / News

Hi All,

We’re writing to let you know that Frederick County’s Craft Beverage Passports are now on sale.

The price is $20, and the passport is good for significant savings at participating Frederick County wineries, breweries, and distilleries from March 21 through June 21.

Proceeds from sale of the passports benefit the Downtown Frederick Partnership, a nonprofit organization that works to enhance, promote and preserve the vitality, livability and diversity of Downtown Frederick.

If you’re interested, act quickly, as only 500 passports are sold each year.  Look HERE for further details and a link for online purchasing.

Cheers,
Bob & Joan

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Photographs by Luna (Monika Greene)

February 27, 2025 / News

Hello all,

Throughout March (known far and wide as Maryland Wine Month) the Links Bridge tasting room will be hosting an exhibit of photographs by Luna (Monika Greene) entitled Elements of Grandeur: A Journey Through Nature, Light, and Form.  In these photos, you will experience a world where nature, structure, and light collide in moments of boldness and serenity.  These scenes are not simply sights; they are experiences, alive in their stillness. At the heart of this collection, a single portrait offers an intimate glimpse into the human soul as a quiet anchor for this journey through the external world.

Heaven’s Gate © Luna

 

Luna is an award-winning photographer, artist, and author of several books. Her photography has been showcased at Ty Framing and Art and in locally produced movies. She is gaining recognition from other professional artists and movie producers for her ability to capture emotion and light through her unique artistic approach.

Available to view in the Links Bridge tasting room from March 1-30, 11 am – 6 pm on weekends and on other days by appointment (301-466-2413).

Reception:  Luna will be on hand in our tasting room on March 8 from 1 to 3 pm. She invites you to attend a guided viewing of Elements of Grandeur: A Journey Through Nature Light and Form, where she will share the stories and inspiration behind her work. This special event offers a unique opportunity to connect informally, explore the creative process behind her 45-piece collection, and discuss how photography transforms into fine art.  Don’t miss this chance to experience art in a personal, meaningful way and celebrate the beauty of light, nature, and form.

Hope to see you in March!

Cheers,
Joan & Bob

 

 

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Hidden Fruit of the Vine: Digital Artwork by Allen Hirsh

February 1, 2025 / News

Hello All,

We have just reopened after a short winter’s nap and we’re looking forward to seeing you again!

We wanted to let you know that from February 1-28, we will be hosting digital artwork by Allen Hirsh, a mathematician/biophysicist by profession who has used the tools of his trade to construct fascinating pictures from ordinary photographs made around Links Bridge Vineyards.  Hirsh has created a massive mathematical program that manipulates both the color and position of each pixel in the photograph, and weird and wonderful scenes result when the transformed pixels are reassembled into a new image.  You will like them!

Riverside Vineyard © Allen Hirsh

Hirsh lives and works in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  He received his BS in Biology from Cal Tech  and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology at the University of Maryland at College Park.  Inspired by the power of mathematics in the sciences, he has crafted a new form of mathematical art.  He has been juried into over 90 shows and has won twelve awards.  He is a member of The Foundry, the Chevy Chase Artists Group, the Capitol ill Arts League, and the Maryland Federation of Art.  He is a juried member of the National Association of Digital Artists and of the Cape Cod Art Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts.  To view more of his work, and learn about his conception of mathematical art, see his The Abstract Gardener and AllenHirshArtist websites.

Advance of the City©Allen Hirsh

Reception:  If you come by the Links Bridge tasting room on Saturday February 8 between 2 and 4 pm, you’ll find Allen on hand to talk about his work and demonstrate his novel methods.  He will bring his computer and make additional Links Bridge images while people watch.  You’ll see the computer rapidly process millions of pixels, producing images that are surprising and  often stunningly beautiful, revealing a hidden world of fascinating and unanticipated scenes.

We hope you’ll come by, either for the reception or just to see these pictures!

Cheers,
Bob & Joan 

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A Maryland Wine Experience

January 24, 2025 / News

A Maryland Wine Experience

Hello all,

We hope you’re enjoying this unusual winter, our first chance to build a snow-person in quite a few years!  Hopefully the winter will change to something spring-like before we reach the long weekend of March 21-23, as that is the time for the annual Maryland Wine Experience.

This year the Master Classes and Grand Tasting that form the Saturday nucleus of the Wine Experience take place at Frederick’s fantastic new Visitation Hotel and at the nearby Tenth Ward Distilling Company.  Surrounding events include a Friday night tour of downtown Frederick craft beverage makers, a Saturday night wine dinner at The Ordinary Hen, and a Sunday brunch at Simple Theory Wine Company.

For a detailed description of the Maryland Wine Experience, and for tickets, look here!

Enjoy the snow!
Bob & Joan

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Most Popular Pictures from our 2024 Wine and Art Series

November 28, 2024 / News

Hello all,

In this email, we’d like to let you know about two things:

1.  Our Winter Schedule
As we do every year, we will be closing soon for our “winter vacation.”  Our last day open will be Sunday, December 15.  We will reopen a month and a half later, on Saturday February 1.  In between these dates, we’ll also be open by appointment, provided that we can find a time that fits your schedule and ours.

2. Our Final “Year in Review” Art Exhibit
Over the past year we have hosted 13 different exhibits of paintings, photographs, and other work by local artists, each lasting about three weeks.  During each exhibit we have encouraged our customers and staff to vote for the best picture.   For our 14th and final exhibit of the year, we have asked the artists involved to bring their most popular picture back to us for an encore showing.  These pictures will be hanging on our walls for our last three open weekends this year (November 30-December 1, December 8-9 , and December 7-8, and December 14-15). This “Year in Review” exhibit will provide a kaleidescope of different subjects, media and styles, truly a feast for the eyes.  We hope you’ll find a chance to come by and see which pictures were most popular (and of course,  enjoy some wine in the process!).

Times: Available to view in the Links Bridge Tasting Room from November 30 through December 15.  Open weekends, 11 am to 6 pm and other days by appointment (Call 301-466-2413).

Best wishes for the holiday season!
Bob & Joan

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Upcoming

March 1-30: Photographs by Luna (Monika Greene)

March 8:  Reception for Luna, 1-3pm

March 21-23: A Maryland Wine Experience!

March 29:  Vine & Vendor Spring Market, 11am-4pm

March 28,29,30:  Wine Club Pickup

April 5-27:  The Sound of Line–Paintings by Bryan Jernigan

(Look here for our complete schedule of artists’ exhibits for the year!)

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