Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyards
July 8, 2022. We diverted from our itinerary to make a return visit to Pippin Hill Farm and Vineyard in North Garden. This was actually our third visit – Kim visited solo in 2016, and we came together in 2018. We noted then that the wine was only “ok.” Pippin Hill was formed in 2010 and its tasting room and events venue opened in 2017. There are several interconnected barns covering some 15,000 square feet. From an easy chair on the long porch, you look out over some five acres of grape vines and to the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. The focus for Pippin Hill and its owners, Dean and Lynn Easton Andrews, is to have an events venue for weddings (and other large events). It is an events-oriented large operation and part of the Easton-Porter Group of hospitality properties Wine and food are in service of those kind of events. Pippin Hill grows its grapes, or acquires them from the Monticello Co-op, and then leaves it to their winemaker, Michael Shaps to creat