Ingleside Vineyards

Ingleside Vineyards is one of the oldest and largest wineries in Virginia. It is part of a 3,000 acre estate which has been owned by the Flemer family for over one hundred years. Charles H. Flemer purchased Ingleside in 1890 and today one of his great-great grandsons is proprietor of Ingleside Vineyards.

Virginia's Northern Neck is a peninsula formed by the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, both breathtaking in their beauty. The rivers are tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, which is a major factor in creating a stable climate accommodating the many American hybrid and grafted European vines. The vineyards cover about 70 acres of gently rolling, well-drained countryside. The climate and topography, along with the soil which is a sandy loam, create conditions similar to those of the Bordeaux region of France.

Ingleside has "worn many hats" over the years. Built in 1834, it has served as a boys' school, known as Washington Academy, a Civil War garrison, a courthouse, and a dairy. Now the property is home to Ingleside Vineyards and Ingleside Nursery.

The winery is housed in the plantation's former dairy barns. The first commercial wines were produced in 1980. Made from hand-harvested grapes, grown in our own vineyards. Ingleside wines have consistently earned top honors in state, national and international wine competitions.

For those interested in Native American history, please visit our museum. Ingleside's museum displays artifacts of several different tribes.

Ingleside is located in the Northern Neck of Virginia, one of the most historic regions in the country. While visiting Ingleside, you will find a fascinating history, a setting rich in nature's beauty, and a heritage of award-winning wines. Located nearby are the birthplaces of George Washington, Robert E. Lee and James Monroe.

Fabbioli Vineyards

Our Philosophy Fabbioli Cellars is a small, family owned and operated vineyard and winery. We focus on growing and making high quality red wines using traditional methods and 21st century knowledge. Through hard work, good decisions and great relationships with customers, family and friends, we have been able to succeed at this dream.

Our business model is based on the fine boutique or Chateau le garage wineries of California and Europe. We have regular tasting hours on Fridays and Saturdays and also offer special events and opportunities such as our educational wine tastings and seminars for your family or tasting group. Our wines are available through local wine shops, restaurants, wine festivals and through the web site. Please check the events page and sign up for our mailing list to stay connected. There are new wines aging in the cellar and more exciting opportunities to taste and learn coming soon. Thank you for your interest in our passion.

Cooper Vineyards

Welcome to Cooper Vineyards. As you browse our website, visit our vineyard and try our award winning wines we hope that you will think of yourself as part of our family.

The quest to produce excellent wines, and to make the best wines possible from our vineyard drives our decisions. We believe that a small winery, with proper effort and diligence can make wines of distinction. Drinking wine, and the adventure of creating a vineyard and winery are a constant source of joy, wonder and fulfillment for us. The journey has brought us many lasting friends who have become part of the Cooper Vineyards family. From our dogs, who patrol the property and greet visitors, to our neighbors who know how to keep the tractors running to our festival volunteers who have learned to pour just the right amount, to our truly gifted Winemaker, Graham Bell, we have been fortunate to find the assistance we need to produce wines worthy of your consideration. Please join us for the adventure of discovery of the bounty of Virginia Wines.

Cooper Vineyards is located in Central Virginia in Louisa County. We are midway between Richmond and Charlottesville, eight miles north of Interstate 64 exit 148 on Shannon Hill road. Please include Cooper Vineyards in your recreation plans. Stop in and visit and try our wines, or make plans to attend one of our festival events. We hope that soon you, too, will be a member of the Cooper Vineyards family.

Oak Crest Vineyards

A long time effort by the Conrad Brandts family culminated in the opening of Oak Crest Winery in 2002. The winery's creation involved a combination of genetics, scientific bent, fortunate opportunities, and the urge to create good wine to share with others.

Conrad's home wine making dates back to the 1950's and the family's wine grape growing in Virginia dates to the mid 1960's. When they purchased their current house site in 1971, the Brandts' recognized the grape growing potential of the adjoining 14 acre tract. In 1986 they acquired that tract and began planting the sandy, 7.5 acre plateau-like field with grafted vinifera grapevines

Participation in the King George Chapter of the American Wine Society has provided breadth and depth to the Brandts' wine knowledge and appreciation They developed preferences for Bordeaux style red wines and Rhine style white wines. Anticipated customer needs dictated planting the limited acreage to half red and half white grapes. Jacques Recht, famous as a Virginia winemaker, offered guidance in selecting the best Bordeaux varieties for our warm, humid locale. We knew we had to plant Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc as the grapes for the red wine blends. Jacques' pessimism regarding the ability to produce a good Rhine wine from locally grown Riesling grapes led to a search for a more suitable white grape. Riesling, Emerald Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, and Symphony were grown experimentally before 2.5 acres of Symphony were planted in 2000. Symphony is a Muscat variety developed in 1941 for the warmer regions of California.

Immediately after the vineyard site was acquired, sketches and calculations were initiated for a winery design. Average vineyard yield, grape-to-wine-to-bottle process flow, bulk wine aging, bottled wine aging, energy consumption, waste disposal, and aesthetics were a few of the factors that influenced the final design. All of the family's talent and time resources were challenged when construction of the winery began in the spring of 1999. At harvest that fall, Oak Crest had licenses to produce commercial wine in the basement fermentation room while the roof was still under construction.

The mostly underground concrete winery with it's extremely well insulated above-ground structure is very energy efficient. The wood-pegged post and beam main floor and roof assemble presents a rustic ambience and is elegantly functional.

As Oak Crest's operations mature and become more efficient, look for the landscaping to bloom, more of Dorothy's art work in the gallery, and the list of available wines to grow. A small batch of strawberry-Symphony blended wine was made in 2004 and will be released in 2005 as Oak Crest's first blush wine.

"Our goal is to become 'The Best Little-Old Winery in Virginia'; customer suggestions to help us reach that goal are welcome."

Belle Mount Vineyards

Belle Mount Vineyards was founded in 2002 by Ray and Catherine Petrie. The Winery was initially an effort to make better use of the topographically challenged land on the estate originally known as Belle Mount. Three Mounts are in existence in Richmond County with the historic landmarks Grove Mount and Mount Airy on each side. Belle Mount is the "Beautiful Hill" between them overlooking the Rappahannock River and Cat Point Creek.
Since modest beginnings in 2002, with the planting of a few hundred vines the current vineyards have over eight acres of vines, Belle Mount has blossomed into a small, super-premium winery that focuses on small lots of handcrafted, vineyard-designated varietals. The tasting room and gift shop opened in 2005 and current harvest levels range between 1,000 to 3,000 annual cases depending on the vintage.

Our current team consists of Winemaker Ray Petrie, and Director of Operations Catherine Petrie. Our focus at the winery is devoted to the production of high quality varietals beginning in the vineyards with careful, attentive management to achieve mouth-watering, truly physiologically ripe fruit and continuing in the cellar with small lots, minimal handling, and slow fermentation to express the flavor potential of each grape variety.

Belle Mount currently grows most of the fruit on our 243 acre estate. Our winemaking efforts begin by ensuring that the vineyard produces the highest quality fruit with strong emphasis on low tonnages and low-input farming practices for natural plant balance.

This dedication to quality has resulted in the production of high quality premium wines representing the greatest potential in the Northern Neck - Chesapeake Bay region.

Over the next several years, Belle Mount intends to maintain production levels at 1,000-3,000 annual cases, the bulk of which will be sold at the winery and a few select wine shops within Virginia. The Winery is located near Warsaw on Newland road.

And now about Belle Mount and the Northern Neck. A neck is a colonial term for a peninsula. Along Virginia's Chesapeake Bay region the most northern peninsula is the Northern Neck. With breezes from the river, gentle rolling hills and abundant game the land here provided an opportunity for those seeking to get away from the increasing population of Jamestown and Williamsburg. From the headwaters of the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers to the Chesapeake Bay the Northern Neck Proprietary was taking shape.

A 1707 land grant from the King of England to Joseph Belfield created Belle Mount in the heart of historyland. George Washington's Birthplace, the ancestral home of Robert E. Lee, and many colonial plantations are located here. Today the quiet countryside provides a retreat from the hurried lifestyle of metropolitan centers. Our population is growing slowly and one day will reach the level attained at the time of the Revolutionary War. Meanwhile our wines age gracefully as they await your enjoyment.

Vault Fields Vineyards

Chatham Vineyards

Jon Wehner is a second-generation winegrower on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He learned about grape growing from his parents who operated Great Falls Vineyard in Great Falls, Virginia for thirty years. He and his wife and their three children own and operate the vineyard and winery. Since 1999, more than twenty acres of high-density (1,740 vines per acre) French vinifera varietals have been planted. They are Merlot (clone 181 and 3 on rootstock 101-14 and 3309), Chardonnay (French Dijon clones 95/96 and 76, and California Clones 4 and 5 on 3309 rootstock), Cabernet Franc (clone 214 on 101-14 rootstock), Cabernet Sauvignon (clone 337 on 101-14 rootstock) and Petit Verdot (clone 400 on 101-14 rootstock). The vineyards are cane pruned during the winter months to balance the vines and limit yields to less than 4 tons per acre thereby concentrating wine flavors. The grapes are hand-picked and sorted before pressing to ensure the highest quality of the juice. Grapes not vinified at the winery are sold to other wineries in Virginia.

The winery was constructed in 2005 and currently has a production capacity of 3,000 to 5,000 cases annually. Winemaking equipment includes a computerized Europress 2200 litre, a Zickler-Rauch destemmer/crusher A-12, French and Virginia oak cooperage, and stainless steel fermenters with dimpled glycol cooling jackets custom-made in Italy. Temperature in the winery is maintained at 50 degrees year round. A retail tasting room is located in the winery. Future plans include the relocation and restoration of an 1890s farmhouse adjoining the winery to serve as a tasting room and special events facility.

Vino Curioso

Cardinal Point Winery

Family owned and operated, Cardinal Point Vineyard and Winery lies in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Ridge, in the shadow of Afton Mountain. Years ago, while stationed in the small city of Bad Kreuznach, Germany on the banks of the Nahe River, Paul and Ruth Gorman discovered a passion for the Riesling wines that were crafted with care in the little vineyards surrounding the town. It was then and there that they decided to add their own vineyard to their retirement plans.

In 1985, Paul retired from the army, and they moved to their farm in Afton, which they called Cardinal Point. Their first order of business was to install the first four acres — two acres each of Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon — on what is now Cardinal Point Vineyard. While eldest son John oversaw the renovation of the old farmhouse on the property, daughter Sarah and youngest son Tim tended the vines while home from school during the summers.

Tim took over as full-time Vineyard Manager in 1989, and has grown the Vineyard to 15 acres, supporting a variety of vinifera. In 2002, Paul and Ruth finally realized their dream of erecting a winery on the premises. Tim now adds winemaking to his farm duties, and the rest of the family share responsibilities in the enterprise. John, an architect, designed the winery buildings; Sarah handles business concerns; and Tim’s wife, Susan, runs the tasting room.

The Gormans invite you to come and visit them in the tasting room, take a tour of the winery and see the vineyards that produce their delicious wines. While you sample the fruits of their labors, they’ll tell you how Cardinal Point got its name, and the meaning of “These are my credentials” on the bottle.

Prince Michel

When Prince Michel Vineyard and Winery was founded 25 years ago, a vision was formed out of the love of Virginia and its relationship with the vine. Prince Michel has since grown to become one of the largest, most widely distributed, and recognized wineries in the state and along the east coast. Our wines have won competitions around the world and flourished with the efforts and love of owners, employees, and customers.

Located in the heart of Virginia Wine Country, Prince Michel Vineyard and Winery is home to both Prince Michel and Rapidan River wines. Our philosophy is simple and centers around hospitality and the enjoyment of the Virginia wine experience. With a strong foundation of past accomplishments and a supportive, growing industry, Prince Michel Vineyard and Winery looks forward to meeting new goals and setting higher standards.

White Fences Vineyards

Every wine has the character of the land in its soul. Here at White Fences Vineyard we also have the sky: the cloudless sailing days and the black, black nights shot through with meteors. This relationship between land and sky courses through each vine and is celebrated in each cluster.

Our vineyard is located in the quaint water town of Irvington, Virginia, away from the big city lights, so we get the full force of the night’s magic. This is how we came to name our fine wines Meteor.

We have 6 acres of Vinifera and French American Hybrid vines producing wines of quality and richly subtle tones.

No wonder. We literally walk hundreds of miles a year in our vineyard, up and down each row, stopping at each vine, touching each cane and cluster.

Harvest is by hand, mostly friends and family. And we sort only the best grapes for each wine. Again, by hand.

Years ago, when we planted our vineyard, our goal was to produce excellent wines that could compete on structure and complexity with the best wines in the world. It’s a lofty goal, or some might say an impossible goal, but we work towards it every day.

We are blessed to live here, and make our wine here, and we know it. There is not a moment we don’t know it. And there is not a bottle of wine we create that does not have in its character the certain sense of itself and where it comes from.