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Here are 15 Virginia vineyards that should be at the top of your must-visit list. Related: 5 Mistakes You Might Be Making With Wine, ... 23595 Winery Lane, Middleburg, VA 20117.
8 Chains North Winery Waterford: Loudoun: Middleburg Virginia AVA: 12 Ridges Vineyard 2019 Vesuvius: Rockbridge [4] 50 West Vineyards Middleburg: Loudoun: Middleburg Virginia AVA: 868 Estate Vineyards 2012 Hillsboro: Loudoun: Middleburg Virginia AVA [5] Abingdon Vineyards Abingdon: Washington: Above Ground Winery 2010 Middlebrook: Augusta ...
The Middleburg Virginia AVA is an American Viticultural Area in the northern Piedmont region of Virginia, 50 miles (80 km) west of Washington, D.C. It is named for the town of Middleburg, Virginia and is bounded by the Potomac River to the north and by mountains in other directions. [5] [6] The hardiness zone of the AVA is 7a.
An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a designated appellation for American wine in the United States distinguishable by geographic, geologic, and climatic features, with boundaries defined by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) of the United States Department of the Treasury. [1]
Most of the AVA is in Virginia, with a small portion in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Most of the vineyards in the AVA are located in Virginia and grow a wide variety of Vitis vinifera, Vitis labrusca, and French hybrid grapes. [2] The hardiness zone is mainly 7a except for some 6b in high areas.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, many other vineyards and wineries joined the mix and by 2009, over 163 wineries were operating in Virginia. By 2020 there were over 280 wineries operating in Virginia. [2] Almost all of these are small, family-owned vineyards and wineries, and only the very largest have developed distribution networks.
A bottle of Norton wine sits next to what is believed to be a 170-year-old Norton/Cynthiana grapevine in Hermann, MO. The Norton cultivar was introduced by Daniel Norborne Norton of Richmond, Virginia, who selected it from among what he believed were seedlings of a long-forgotten grape variety called Bland, though there is some doubt as to whether it was the actual source of the seed which ...
The village is located midway between the port of Alexandria [6] and Winchester, Virginia, on the Ashby Gap trading route (now followed by U.S. Route 50). In 1863, Middleburg witnessed two skirmishes during the Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War. From the early 1900s, Middleburg began welcoming visitors who participated in foxhunting and ...