Slater Run Vineyards
August 14, 2026. Our wineries seem to have a certain topology. They sit at the bottom of hills and look up at their vines as an audience may look at the orchestra. Or they sit at the top of a hill and look down at the vines as a lord surveys the fiefdom. The commonality between all of these are the hills that Virginia has no shortage of, whether they’re lumps, bumps, mounds, or large enough to be named mountains. Find a nice soil and a nice exposure and grapes can be grown. Slater Run Vineyards is reachable by straight climb up one of these hills along a rutted driveway passing the House Vineyard on your left. Once you reach the winery at the top, this vineyard appears like an apron skirting the hillside. We are writing from east of the town of Upperville, just off the John Mosby Highway and just inside the Fauquier County line. The Salter Family has farmed the land near Goose Creek and Plum Run Farm for over 300 years...