Farm de Vine Vineyard
October 17, 2026. Hari Moosani is a software architect during the week and on weekends a grape farmer – a real vigneron. He sports thick sideburns and a bushy moustache that he may have started when studying at Bangalore University before the wife and kids. The grower proudly farms his acre and a quarter of vines for his Farm de Vine Vineyard situated on the side of Short Hill near Hillsboro. Farm de Vine is a small place in the less-frequented part of Western Loudoun. His acreage yields only around 100 cases a year on a normal year, but his experience has been that “normal” in Virginia is not always a good thing. Since starting the vineyard in 2021, he’s experienced his first harvest (2022) – an emotional event for him, when the guidance of neighbors and people like Extension Agent Beth Sastre led him to plant small and grow slowly. Then he endured a season of ruinous rains in 2024, and he completely lost this year’s Cabernet Sauv...