Barboursville Vineyards
February 24, 2024. Barboursville Vineyards, near the little crossroads of Barboursville in Orange County, is unquestionably, one of the most recognized and applauded wine operations in Virginia. They have won the Virginia Governor’s Cup five times, the last in 2021. When Queen Elizabeth visited Virginia to commemorate the founding of Jamestown, it was Barboursville wine that was served at the reception. Barboursville, consistently appears on lists of Virginia’s best wineries.* We last visited Barboursville in 2021 and wrote somewhat disparagingly of the tiny antiseptic "Discovery" tasting room where visitors received tasting samples in automated amounts from dispensing machines. Those machines are still in place, a remnant of COVID, but we understand are being phased out in favor of humans. Today, we drove to the winery almost by accident. I misread the opening time of a winery we planned to visit, and with time on our hands decided to check-out Barboursvi