Arterra Wines
December 19, 2025. Encountering Jason Murray – owner and winemaker at Arterra Wines – must be what it was like to meet a passionate disciple of a new faith. The faith in question is “clean wine,” and his pursuit is in hostile territory, so goes the received wisdom. All shall be explained. First, some preliminaries: Arterra Wines is to be found between Interstate 66 and Route 17 (Winchester Road) in the northwestern part of Fauquier County. It has a Delaplane address.* Sandy and Jason Murray purchased the property from Bob and Phoebe Harper (of Naked Mountain) in 2014 making the Murray’s in a sense the second generation of Virginia winemakers. At purchase, the land was completely wooded, and the Murray’s have since hacked out an 8-and-a-half-acre estate vineyard from the hilly forest. The A-frame lodge that holds the winey and tasting room opened in 2015. It seems to rise organically from the hillside while remaining largely ...