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days in the Fauquier County jail.
    She got out nine days early.
    When Tareq returned to Virginia after completing his education in California he brought a lady friend back with him, but the relationship soured within the year. Being a healthy young man with money, Tareq dated a range of female companions. He did have one particular girlfriend for nearly four years, but still there was never a woman who made him yearn to settle down and marry.
    Although he and his father had much in common, Dirgham preferred his old car to bounce around the dusty country roads, wine-stained blue jeans and dirty fingernails; while Tareq bought fancy sports cars and a boat and wore tailored jackets and imported loafers. He indulged his love of polo and bought fine horses. To outsiders he looked every bit like a wealthy, single playboy, but no matter how hard he worked or how much he increased the vineyard’s business, he felt his mother’s withering disapproval each time he rewarded himself. He decided that it was a good thing that she spent most of her time at the school in Alexandria.
    On the business front, Tareq set out to apply the knowledge of the production of sparkling wines that he had made his specialty at UC Davis. It was a labor intensive effort, but one Tareq believed would pay real dividends in the form of word-of-mouth advertising amongst true oenophiles. His inspiration was that the introduction of a fine Virginia Cuvee could be just the thing to put Oasis on the wine lover’s map. He had already produced his first successful batch in 1999, bottled with a handsome label that read: Oasis Celebration 2000. Now Tareq boldly wrote to the editors at Wine Enthusiast magazine and invited them to come to Virginia to have a taste. It was an audacious move that could have easily backfired. As it was, they took their time in showing up. But once they did, Oasis Vineyard found itself ranked as one of the magazine’s “Top 10 in the World.”
     
We were impressed with Mr. Tareq Salahi’s passion for his sparkling wines and his focus on methode champenoise at the University of California, Davis. It’s no surprise that this Oasis Brut Sparkling Wine is one of the Top 10 Sparkling Wines & Champagnes in the World! We tasted a record 5,184 wines from 24 countries over the last 12 months. The Oasis Brut Sparkling Wine NV has been selected as one of only 10 sparkling Wines & Champagnes in the world have been awarded this prestigious honor
    - The Wine Enthusiast
    And The Wine Spectator magazine continued the praise of Tareq’s creation.
     
Oasis Celebration 2000 Brut - “Something quite solid… A satisfying, fruit centered sparkling wine with plenty of crisp apple flavor and rather full body.
    - The Wine Spectator
    Oasis became the largest and most successful winery in the region, selling tens of thousands of cases of wine each year. It was due in large part to the innovations of the partner/son. Tareq continued to follow his vision that the best way to make Oasis even more profitable was to sell the entire region as a tourist destination. He set about enlisting other wineries to join him in his marketing efforts. He launched the first website for a Virginia winery, urging visitors to ask their local stores and restaurants to stock Oasis wines. He invited civic and business groups to have their meetings out on the new back deck at Oasis overlooking the vineyard pond. Weddings, anniversary and birthday parties were booked too.
    Things kept looking up. Governor Jim Gilmore appointed Tareq to the Virginia Wine Board, on which he continued to serve during the administration of Governor Mark Warner. When Tim Kaine became the governor in 2006, he would appoint Tareq to the Virginia Tourism Corporation in recognition of all the benefits the commonwealth received each year from the rapidly emerging wine industry.
    Tareq’s visions were becoming a reality while he helped make Dirgham’s dreams for the property take shape. Tareq traded in his