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Creek's Edge Winery

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November 15, 2025.   The area near Lovettsville around the crossroads of Taylorstown in northern Loudoun County is replete with stone farmhouses and stone barns that contain whose walls and foundations contain the memories of plowing up endless rocks from this exhausting landscape so many years ago.   And tucked into one of those fields behind the derelict, mustard-colored Taylorstown general store, down a gravel driveway is Tedd Durden’s Creek’s Edge Winery.   Tedd and his family began planting grapes in 2009 with a plan to sell grapes to local wineries.   However, in fairly short order, they decided to make their own wine instead.     Tedd applied his background in the construction industry to build the three-storey wine production facility and tasting room and opened it for business in 2014.   We visited Creek’s Edge in 2016 and noted the wide field that slopes down to the edge of the Catoctin Creek.   The Furnace Mountains form a gentle horses...