Whoa! Good thing it wasn't like, underage smoking, or something.
(While I always regarded Virginia's alcohol laws as a tad, well, different, this seems over the top to me.) You used to be able to drink beer and wine there at 18.
You can thank the MADD harpies for legislation that strong armed the states into taking the drinking age to 21.
You used to be able to drink beer and wine there at 18.”
And in most other states until the federal government threatened them with loss of “federal” tax money unless they raised the legal alcohol possession/consumption age to 21.