Bluemont Vineyard
January 16, 2026. To begin our winery tours for 2026, we are continuing an informal project started last month to return to some near-by wineries that we have not written about for this blog. This allows us to take some short trips in the doldrums of the winter while catching up on developments of the local wine places. We’ll start with Bluemont Vineyard in western Loudoun County near the town of Bluemont. Passing the brewery and the bakery on the valley floor, you ascend more than drive up vertiginous but well-maintained roads to the winery and tasting room at 951 feet of elevation. Bluemont sits in the first ridge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, looking like an eagle’s nest from the valley below. While we have been to higher elevations to taste wine (I think the highest was Stone Mountain at 1,700 feet), there are few with such a panoramic unobstructed view. On a winter’s day, you can see squares and rectangles of dormant farms in yellow stubbl...