The Barns at Hamilton Station Vineyards
July 28, 2024. The Barns at Hamilton Station lies almost midway between Route 7 and Route 9 on Hamilton Station Road in Loudoun County. As we have heard from other winery owners, Hamilton Station the depot for carrying produce to the Washington DC area back when dairy farms dominated and Loudoun County was the major milk supplier to the Washington DC area. Since those times in the 1950’s and ‘60’s, dairy farms have been taken over by the wine business. When you arrive at the Barns, you will walk through what is almost a park with a large dairy barn and silo, their seams and metal roofs being taken over by kudzu and creeper. The Barns’ tasting room is a restored 1910 bank barn with a high vaulted ceiling striated between the old wood ceiling beams and the chinking. A large fireplace at one end can keep all 4,400 square feet cozy in the cooler months. Most of the flooring is original or at least of the same vintage. (In 2020, a major support beam in the main room crac