Veramar Vineyard
October 20, 2022. Kim and I began our first real foray into the Shenandoah Valley AVA by stopping at Veramar Vineyard near Berryville in Clarke County. The winery is convenient to west bound Route 7. The interior of the tasting room is basic, but we did notice a nice woodburning fireplace. If weather permits sitting outside, however, that is where you want to be. The tasting room faces the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains with gentle fields of vines sloping down from an Italianate veranda. Veramar opened in 2001 after a first harvest in 2019. The focus is on wine making. The facilities are not set-up for large events. Veramar is the so-called “Mother Ship” of the three vineyards and wineries owned by James “Jim” Charles and Della Bogaty, which are formally called the Bogaty Family Wine Group. (We will review one of the other locations, James Charles Winery and Vineyard, in the next post.) The main vineyard is at Veramar, and all wine production takes place there