1/11/12 - Hope you all had a very happy holiday season and our best wishes for this new year! Still no snow and a roller coaster of temperatures make it hard to believe we are in January already. We had a great visit with our neice and nephew shown here enjoying our annual New Year bonfire. Moussa is just starting to prune and we've finished our sheep shed expansion in anticipation of our flock increase this spring.
11/29/11 - Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving! The weather has just been beautiful - hard to believe we are almost in December! Today we bottled a new sweet red we will be releasing for Valentine's Day weekend - very yummy!
11/21/11 - This month's weather has just been like a roller coaster! Either 10 degrees above or 10 degrees below "normal"! But we've been lucky that the weekends are usually the nicer days. The leaves are almost all gone now, and the views around are still great - now you can see all the mountains! The vines are going to sleep and we are busy "hilling" the young ones to protect them over the winter. We also borrowed a ram from a friend and introduced him to a few select ewes, with the lambs due around the beginning of April!
11/2/11 - Snow on Saturday and almost 60 today - what a difference! We lost a huge limb on our lovely maple tree by the driveway as it was a heavy, wet, snow and the trees still had most of their leaves. We postponed Pops until Sunday - the first time he's played in the snow!
We are also busy pressing our reds. We did the Norton on Sunday with some of our "Friends of Wisteria" and are doing the Carmine today. Then we can take a huge breath of relief and sit back and tend to the wine. Nina and Paul are loading the grapes into the press.
Here they are trying to keep the wine from squirting out (the Norton is very messy!).
Removing the "cake" after pressing are Nina and John with Moussa supervising!
10/19/11 - What a beautiful weekend we finally had! Georgeous fall weather with a mild breeze. We had record numbers here on Saturday to enjoy the music of Me & Martha, and thank everyone for their patience!
The great weather continued through yesterday, so we decided to take the afternoon off and go for a drive and do some hiking over on Massanutten. This shot is a view of our valley from Storybook Trail.
This is one of the North Fork of Shenandoah in the Seven Bends area.
10/14/11 - We've been busy harvesting! The rain finally let up and we had a few days of sunshine, so we decided to go ahead and pick the Norton and the Carmine before we got any more rain - two tons of each! Not only is October Virginia Wine Month, but the leaves are peaking everywhere, so come out and enjoy what the Valley has to offer!
10/2/11 - What weird weather we keep having - much colder and wetter than normal. But the wine and the music still go on and folks brave the elements to join us. This past weekend was FrikNFrak, and they did a wonderful job, despite the weather!
9/27/11 - The 2nd Annual SPCA Benefit was on Saturday and was a great hit with everyone! Although it was cloudy all day, it never rained, so we were able to spread out and enjoy the wine, food, music, and all the great items in the silent auction.
9/21/11 - Despite a rainy start, the sun finally came out and we were able to enjoy the music of Time from the deck and tasting room. A nice early fall day and great music!
Unfortunately, all this rain at harvest is wreaking havoc with the grapes. Hopefully we will get some sunshine days soon!
9/11/11 - It's turning out to be a beautiful weekend. Yesterday we did an early morning harvest of the Traminette with some friends.
Then we had our Music Under the Arbor event with Felicia Housden. A lovely, relaxing afternoon! Even Tammy lay quiet and enjoyed it!
9/5/11 - What a great Labor Day weekend! We truly lived up to the name. On Saturday we had our 4th Annual Pick 'em and Stomp 'em and had our largest harvest yet. The first group of volunteers lined up at 7 in the morning for the blessing of the vines and to start the harvest with more showing up through the morning.
This was the low grape gang!
Picking was finally done around 12 and we all took a grateful pizza break.
Then the fun began - stomping time!
Our champion stompers!
Then on Sunday, we pressed the grapes with more volunteers - about 1,500 bottles worth of Seyval 2011 in the making!
8/29/11 - What a busy weekend! We started off the day as part of the inaugural Page County Grown Farm Tour, highlighting the vineyard and the sheep. Then we had our Music Under the Arbor event with Acoustic Thunder. Due to Irene's influence, we moved it to the crushpad where everyone could be under cover. Then, at the end of the day, we attended the Farm to Table WineMakers dinner at the Mimslyn Inn where the 4 course menu featured products from participating farms with our wines! To see all the pictures from the Farm Tour and Dinner you can click on this link.
8/21/11 - What a great birthday party! Thanks to everyone who came out and joined us in celebrating our two year anniversay - as usual, the music from Eklektix was fantastic, food from West Main Market in Luray was yummy, and of course, the wine was great, and a wonderful time was had by all! Be sure to check out our Scrapbook for more great pictures!
8/17/11 - Last weekend was another great Music Under the Arbor event with Pops Walker. Due to the rain, we ended up moving everyone under the crushpad, but the rain on the roof and the roosters crowing added even more to the ambience! This weekend will be our two year celebration for the Tasting Room - be sure to come out and join us for this special day!
8/8/11 - ...and the heat goes on! Mother Nature was once again extremely cooperative for us - a nice overcast most of the day to keep the temps down and then when the thunderstorm hit, she graciously waited until Acoustic Thunder had a chance to pack up and the guests to get to their cars! We had a great crowd, including a birthday group, and everyone had a great time!
Hector and Mokey of Acoustic Thunder - great classic rock! Check out our scrapbook for more pictures!
7/27/11 - Boy is it HOT! Last weekend was the worst, but FrikNFrak helped keep people cool with their music. We had a good turnout, and as usual the music was great!
7/10/11 - The rain stopped in time for our Music Under the Arbor event with Eklektix. It was a beautiful day and a great time was had by all!
Check out our scrapbook for more pictures!
6/13/11 - Another great Music Under the Arbor event this past weekend! We had a big rainstorm blow through just before Me & Martha were due to play (it blew the tent away!), but then cleared up and cooled down. Then we had another one just after they had packed up and gone!
Congratulations to the bride and groom!
Just enjoying it all!
6/8/11 - We finally took a break from all the festivals in May! We had the first Music Under the Arbor events this past weekend, with Time on Saturday and Felicia Housden on Sunday. The weather was just perfect on both days and lots of people came out to enjoy the wine, weather, and music!
Even Moussa found some time to sit and relax with some of our friends.
We also took advantage of the great weather to take a day off and go hiking with the dogs (poor Daisy is still recuperating)! We went down Hazel Mountain Trail and had lunch by the creek - very nice. The moutain laurel were in bloom all over the place!
5/15/11 - The Luray Spring Festival was great! No rain all day; the sun even peeked out a few times. Thanks to all our volunteers who helped with pouring - Loretta, Maria, Carol, Erika, and Karen! What a team! Next week is the Virginia Wine and Craft Festival in Front Royal. So far it looks like it's just going to be J.J. and Sue. If you'd like to join in on the fun for a few hours, be sure and let us know - we can use more volunteers!
5/11/11 - The weather for our Planting Day was fantastic! Mother Nature once again didn't let us down, providing us with plenty of sun and great temperatures.
It was a busy weekend - not only did we have the Planting event, but we were also joined by a bachelorette group who planted the Bridal White Chardonnay rows (3) in a record 15 minutes and 10 seconds! Congratulations!
4/7/11 - What a great day for our Shearing Event! Our fiber ladies were on hand to spin the fleece into yarn and show how it was done. We had several folks come out early to see all the fun. The sheep weren't too happy about it all, but they will be once it warms up!
4/1/11 - We just got back from the Wineries Unlimited 2011 conference in Richmond. Lots of great seminars to help us keep growing and we were able to network with a lot of our fellow vineyards and wineries. But I'm not sure if sitting through the seminars and not being out in the vineyard was harder on Moussa or the dogs! First thing he did when we got home was to take them out for a run and go check on the vines. They are his babies - guess that's why his wine is so good!
3/22/11 - Virginia Wine Week and the beginning of Spring! What a great combination. Come out to see all the spring flowers and trees - everything is popping out!
2/28/11 - We are just back from the Virginia Wine Expo in Richmond this weekend. Our Merlot 2009, even though still young, won a bronze in the Governor's Cup!
Great crowds, especially on Saturday! The Carmine was a best seller and we ran out early on Sunday.
We couldn't have done it without the help of our Festival volunteers, Bill & Rhonda. Thanks, guys!
2/15/11 - With a taste of spring in the air, we had a great turnout all weekend for the chocolate fondue and wine. We had a nice fire going, and a great time was had by all!
Both new releases, the Carmine and the Merlot "Wild" were a big hit and several people came by just to check them out.
1/27/11 - Beautiful snow! Finally a reason for all this cold weather we've been having! When all was said and done, we had 6 inches. Now all the fun of digging out and clearing paths for the sheep and chickens (us, too, of course!). Everything is just so pretty with a new coat of snow - check the Scrapbook for more pictures!
1/14/11 - The first post of the New Year! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and may this year be full of health and happiness! According to the local paper, we had the coldest December in 70 years! I believe it. But while I stay warm and toasty inside, poor Moussa is taking care of the vineyard so this year's harvest will be great. Last year, thanks to all the February snows, he got behind on his pruning, so this year he is starting early, with the dogs for company - brrrrr.....
Summer Shots: Butterflies on the butterfly bush.
May Flowers! Wisteria and lilacs blooming at the same time - beautiful!
Vineyard under Snow
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Looks like we will have a white Christmas this year! How exciting! We are already almost two feet and it's still snowing hard! Check out the dogs enoying this snowfall!
Stacie
Tammy
DIRECTIONS
We are located in the Shenandoah Valley off of U.S. 340 Business between Luray and Elkton just outside of the town of Stanley.
From Luray, VA: Use 340S Business through the town towards Stanley. Approximately 6 miles south of Luray, turn left on 624 (Hawksbill Dr), then left on 689 (Marksville Rd).
From Charlottesville, VA: Take 29N to Ruckersville, then 33W to Elkton. In Elkton, take 340N approximately 13 miles, then take 340N Business to Stanley. Shortly after crossing the RR tracks, turn right on 689 (Chapel Rd) which turns into Marksville Rd.
From Harrisonburg, VA: Take 33E to Elkton. In Elkton, take 340N approximately 13 miles, then take 340N Business to Stanley. Shortly after crossing the RR tracks, turn right on 689 (Chapel Rd) which turns into Marksville Rd.
We are on the right in the middle of the curve after passing Pine Grove Rd, in the white Victorian with the light purple shutters. The tasting room is in the back! Custom Directions.
1/11/12 - Hope you all had a very happy holiday season and our best wishes for this new year! Still no snow and a roller coaster of temperatures make it hard to believe we are in January already. We had a great visit with our neice and nephew shown here enjoying our annual New Year bonfire. Moussa is just starting to prune and we've finished our sheep shed expansion in anticipation of our flock increase this spring. 
11/21/11 - This month's weather has just been like a roller coaster! Either 10 degrees above or 10 degrees below "normal"! But we've been lucky that the weekends are usually the nicer days. The leaves are almost all gone now, and the views around are still great - now you can see all the mountains! The vines are going to sleep and we are busy "hilling" the young ones to protect them over the winter. We also borrowed a ram from a friend and introduced him to a few select ewes, with the lambs due around the beginning of April!
11/2/11 - Snow on Saturday and almost 60 today - what a difference! We lost a huge limb on our lovely maple tree by the driveway as it was a heavy, wet, snow and the trees still had most of their leaves. We postponed Pops until Sunday - the first time he's played in the snow!
We are also busy pressing our reds. We did the Norton on Sunday with some of our "Friends of Wisteria" and are doing the Carmine today. Then we can take a huge breath of relief and sit back and tend to the wine. Nina and Paul are loading the grapes into the press.
Here they are trying to keep the wine from squirting out (the Norton is very messy!).
Removing the "cake" after pressing are Nina and John with Moussa supervising!
The great weather continued through yesterday, so we decided to take the afternoon off and go for a drive and do some hiking over on Massanutten. This shot is a view of our valley from Storybook Trail.
This is one of the North Fork of Shenandoah in the Seven Bends area.
10/14/11 - We've been busy harvesting! The rain finally let up and we had a few days of sunshine, so we decided to go ahead and pick the Norton and the Carmine before we got any more rain - two tons of each! Not only is October Virginia Wine Month, but the leaves are peaking everywhere, so come out and enjoy what the Valley has to offer!
10/2/11 - What weird weather we keep having - much colder and wetter than normal. But the wine and the music still go on and folks brave the elements to join us. This past weekend was FrikNFrak, and they did a wonderful job, despite the weather!
9/27/11 - The 2nd Annual SPCA Benefit was on Saturday and was a great hit with everyone! Although it was cloudy all day, it never rained, so we were able to spread out and enjoy the wine, food, music, and all the great items in the silent auction. 
9/21/11 - Despite a rainy start, the sun finally came out and we were able to enjoy the music of Time from the deck and tasting room. A nice early fall day and great music!
Unfortunately, all this rain at harvest is wreaking havoc with the grapes. Hopefully we will get some sunshine days soon!
9/11/11 - It's turning out to be a beautiful weekend. Yesterday we did an early morning harvest of the Traminette with some friends. 
Then we had our Music Under the Arbor event with Felicia Housden. A lovely, relaxing afternoon! Even Tammy lay quiet and enjoyed it!
9/5/11 - What a great Labor Day weekend! We truly lived up to the name. On Saturday we had our 4th Annual Pick 'em and Stomp 'em and had our largest harvest yet. The first group of volunteers lined up at 7 in the morning for the blessing of the vines and to start the harvest with more showing up through the morning.
This was the low grape gang!
Picking was finally done around 12 and we all took a grateful pizza break.
Then the fun began - stomping time!
Our champion stompers!
Then on Sunday, we pressed the grapes with more volunteers - about 1,500 bottles worth of Seyval 2011 in the making!
8/29/11 - What a busy weekend! We started off the day as part of the inaugural Page County Grown Farm Tour, highlighting the vineyard and the sheep. Then we had our Music Under the Arbor event with Acoustic Thunder. Due to Irene's influence, we moved it to the crushpad where everyone could be under cover. Then, at the end of the day, we attended the Farm to Table WineMakers dinner at the Mimslyn Inn where the 4 course menu featured products from participating farms with our wines! To see all the pictures from the Farm Tour and Dinner you can 
8/21/11 - What a great birthday party! Thanks to everyone who came out and joined us in celebrating our two year anniversay - as usual, the music from Eklektix was fantastic, food from West Main Market in Luray was yummy, and of course, the wine was great, and a wonderful time was had by all! Be sure to check out our Scrapbook for more great pictures!
8/8/11 - ...and the heat goes on! Mother Nature was once again extremely cooperative for us - a nice overcast most of the day to keep the temps down and then when the thunderstorm hit, she graciously waited until Acoustic Thunder had a chance to pack up and the guests to get to their cars! We had a great crowd, including a birthday group, and everyone had a great time!
Hector and Mokey of Acoustic Thunder - great classic rock! Check out our scrapbook for more pictures!
7/27/11 - Boy is it HOT! Last weekend was the worst, but FrikNFrak helped keep people cool with their music. We had a good turnout, and as usual the music was great! 
7/10/11 - The rain stopped in time for our Music Under the Arbor event with Eklektix. It was a beautiful day and a great time was had by all! 
Check out our scrapbook for more pictures!
6/13/11 - Another great Music Under the Arbor event this past weekend! We had a big rainstorm blow through just before Me & Martha were due to play (it blew the tent away!), but then cleared up and cooled down. Then we had another one just after they had packed up and gone!
Congratulations to the bride and groom!
Just enjoying it all!
6/8/11 - We finally took a break from all the festivals in May! We had the first Music Under the Arbor events this past weekend, with Time on Saturday and Felicia Housden on Sunday. The weather was just perfect on both days and lots of people came out to enjoy the wine, weather, and music!
Even Moussa found some time to sit and relax with some of our friends.
We also took advantage of the great weather to take a day off and go hiking with the dogs (poor Daisy is still recuperating)! We went down Hazel Mountain Trail and had lunch by the creek - very nice. The moutain laurel were in bloom all over the place!
5/11/11 - The weather for our Planting Day was fantastic! Mother Nature once again didn't let us down, providing us with plenty of sun and great temperatures. 
It was a busy weekend - not only did we have the Planting event, but we were also joined by a bachelorette group who planted the Bridal White Chardonnay rows (3) in a record 15 minutes and 10 seconds! Congratulations!
4/7/11 - What a great day for our Shearing Event! Our fiber ladies were on hand to spin the fleece into yarn and show how it was done. We had several folks come out early to see all the fun. The sheep weren't too happy about it all, but they will be once it warms up! 
3/22/11 - Virginia Wine Week and the beginning of Spring! What a great combination. Come out to see all the spring flowers and trees - everything is popping out! 
2/28/11 - We are just back from the Virginia Wine Expo in Richmond this weekend. Our Merlot 2009, even though still young, won a bronze in the Governor's Cup! 
Great crowds, especially on Saturday! The Carmine was a best seller and we ran out early on Sunday. 
We couldn't have done it without the help of our Festival volunteers, Bill & Rhonda. Thanks, guys!
2/15/11 - With a taste of spring in the air, we had a great turnout all weekend for the chocolate fondue and wine. We had a nice fire going, and a great time was had by all! 
Both new releases, the Carmine and the Merlot "Wild" were a big hit and several people came by just to check them out.
1/27/11 - Beautiful snow! Finally a reason for all this cold weather we've been having! When all was said and done, we had 6 inches. Now all the fun of digging out and clearing paths for the sheep and chickens (us, too, of course!). Everything is just so pretty with a new coat of snow - check the Scrapbook for more pictures! 
1/14/11 - The first post of the New Year! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays and may this year be full of health and happiness! According to the local paper, we had the coldest December in 70 years! I believe it. But while I stay warm and toasty inside, poor Moussa is taking care of the vineyard so this year's harvest will be great. Last year, thanks to all the February snows, he got behind on his pruning, so this year he is starting early, with the dogs for company - brrrrr.....
Summer Shots: Butterflies on the butterfly bush.
May Flowers! Wisteria and lilacs blooming at the same time - beautiful!
Vineyard under Snow
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Looks like we will have a white Christmas this year! How exciting! We are already almost two feet and it's still snowing hard! Check out the dogs enoying this snowfall! 
Stacie
Tammy
