India, March 6 -- As someone who spent the first two decades of their life in Virginia, only to find themselves moving back after 10 years away, I can attest that it's a state with a seemingly endless number of places to visit. My childhood was spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains - camping in the Peaks of Otter and canoeing down the James River - and my college years brought me to Williamsburg, where history and higher education go hand in hand with waterfront views. Now, I'm a resident of Charlottesville, a small city within driving distance of Shenandoah National Park and Virginia's Wine Country.

"Virginia has everything that you could ever ask for," says George Hodson, CEO of Veritas Vineyard and Winery in Afton. "For me, it is the natu...