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Skyline Tasting Trail traverses the most scenic 30 miles west of Washington DC along rural Route 211 leading to the stunning Blue Ridge Mountains. Explore the pristine scenery of America's protected treasure, Shenandoah National Park. As you meander through the rural tips of Fauquier, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties, You are invited to Relax and sample premier artisan wines, spirits, craft brews, ciders and meads in 14 unique farm tasting rooms dotting the landscape on the sunrise side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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SKYLINE TASTING TRAIL
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Enjoy the ultimate scenic drive to the Blue Ridge mountains 60 miles West of Washington DC.
Do lunch in Shenandoah National Park or one of many independent restaurants along the way.
Visit Virginia's premier farm tasting rooms and other agritourism farms listed below.
THE TASTING ROOMS OF SKYLINE TASTING TRAIL
Click on each tasting room image to visit trail websites
From the D.C. Beltway Take I-66 West to the Gainesville/Warrenton exit 43A.
Through Warrenton follow signs to Route 211 and Shenandoah National Park.
Make a right turn onto Route 211 and prepare to relax!
Below are the Route 211 Tasting Rooms in the order you'll find them starting from Warrenton to Sperryville
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Death Ridge Brewery - 5393 Higher Ground Trail Jeffersonton - Death Ridge Brewery at Higher Ground Farm! The farm lays in the little town of Jeffersonton, Virginia, on the outskirts of Culpeper County. With family having grown up both in and around Jeffersonton for generations, we have always enjoyed hearing about the history of the town and our property, the Civil War being a great part of that. The site where Death Ridge Brewery is built was once a campsite during the Civil War, and many relics have been found all over those fields from soldiers passing through. |
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Magnolia Vineyards - 200 Viewtown Road Amissville - Escape the madness at Magnolia Vineyards! No stress, no pressure, just magnificent wines and views. We are a family-run boutique vineyard and winery, making small lots of mostly Bordeaux varietals, located in Amissville, just off scenic Route 211. Visit us for unique wine tastings paired with cheeses & chocolates, live acoustic music on Saturdays, themed charcuterie picnic boxes, and more! Relax in our cozy tasting room or outside on our covered porch, beautiful deck, or surrounding grounds. Warm and welcoming hospitality, quiet country peace and great mountain views await you at Magnolia Vine |
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Gray Ghost Winery - 14706 Lee Highway Amissville - Gray Ghost Winery started it all for the premier Skyline Tasting Trail as the first winery to take root in the pristine grape-growing terroir of Virginia Route 211. Located in Amissville on what was previously a horse farm. Al and Cheryl Kellert planted their first vines in 1986. The Kellerts were early pioneers in the emerging Virginia wine scene that began in the late 1970’s and carried leadership roles in the development of the burgeoning Virginia wine industry. This family owned and operated winery is placing Virginia on the international wine map. Emphasis on quality has resulted in Gray Ghost being named "Best of the East" by Vineyard and Winery Management Magazine four consecutive years! |
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Narmada Winery - 43 Narmada Lane Amissville - A long-standing dream to own a vineyard one day began to take shape over a 29th anniversary dinner at the renowned Inn at Little Washington. Along the pastoral drive to dinner through scenic Rappahannock County, Pandit and Sudha Patil discovered the perfect gently rolling piece of land on which to build their dream! This duo planned the planting of their first vineyards right there over dinner and eventually settled down with a focus to create graceful wines that are the highest possible quality. Narmada Winery released its inaugural vintage of first wines to critical acclaim. Over the years, Narmada wines have achieved more than 40 gold medals in national and international competitions. |
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Wine Loves Chocolate - 353 Main Street Washington - Let the Choco-Vino adventures begin! Named the best retail wine shop in Virginia, this tiny urban tasting room has proven once and for all that wine does indeed go with chocolate ... if you do it right! Walk right in to do the Choco-Vino challenge. While tasting 4 of the most incredible wines you’ll never find without us and 4 crazy amazing small batch artisan truffles you’ll learn how to get a perfect pairing every time! Our love of artful chocolate has led us down a whole new path of high-end, exquisite delicacies, exceptional in every way: the look, the mouth-feel and the flavor. With the modern sophistication of today’s flavors, trends and ingredients, the artistry is in each chocolatiers own imagination. Build your own perfect box of chocolate in our DIY truffle bar. The truffle domes are loaded … truffle boxes are empty - GO. |
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Gadino Cellars - 92 School House Road Washington - Piacere!” – We are pleased to meet you. Bill and Aleta are the two founding owners of Gadino Cellars, who share a similar Italian family heritage of home winemaking. Our grandfathers emmigrated from Italy in the early 1900’s and brought with them the custom of making wine for family and neighbors. As children, we were permitted a small glass during Sunday and holiday meals. The love of a glass of wine to enhance good food and family congeniality was instilled in both of us at an early age. Needless to say, technology has come a long way since those days! Those rustic and often robust wines—and the passion and home-grown skill that infused them—are an essential part of the wine making philosophy at Gadino Cellars!
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Little Washington Winery - 65 Clark Lane Washington - Whatever you’re in the mood for we’ve got you covered at Little Washington Winery! This winery/Brewery is located smack dab in the middle of an Affinity Agritourism Destination at Shenandoah National Park. The farm spans 55 acres right in the sweet spot of Virginia Wine Country, on the sunrise side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. 12 award winning estate wines, including George, named the #1 red wine in Virginia, and 9 estate craft beers are produced here from dry farm hops and vineyard crops! Little Washington Winery is home of the Dirt Road Wine Academy and Foodie-U Wine School. A series of 24 classes with winemakers are rated best wine education in Virginia. Little Washington Winery’s Dirt Road Wine Club just got named the best wine club in Virginia by Virginia Living’s Richmond show. |
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Little Washington BreWinery (aka Skyline Brewing) - 72 Christmas Tree Lane Washington - You are now free to enjoy both Beer and Wine in one tasting room! We do Nanobrew! Nano is the key to truly distinctive craft beer. With a maximum capacity of 35 gallons per batch, the glory of the nano brew style is every brew day is a totally new craft beer experiment. Carl can throw all sorts of wacky stuff in the kettle and see what comes out! If it’s good, we keep fine-tuning it. If not, it goes down the drain. We can go wild using our nano system to debut new suds every week! Bring your discs - this is the home of Jenkins Mountain Disc Golf - ranked the #3 disc golf course with a brewery in the world! Also ranked the #3 disc golf course with a winery in the world! It's the only disc golf course with a brewery and a winery in the world (guess that makes it #1)!
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Quievremont Winery - 162 Gid Brown Hollow Road Washington - Located roughly an hour's drive from Washington, D.C. in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in bucolic Rappahannock County, Quièvremont Vineyard & Winery sits in the midst of the burgeoning Virginia wine industry. Constructed in 2016 and opened in 2017, Quievremont Winery's tasting facility and winery provide a beautiful and scenic location in which to explore wines and winemaking practices. A visit to Quièvremont is a unique experience focused on memorable and classic wines at the heart of Reality Farm. |
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Copper Fox Distillery - 9 River Lane Sperryville - The story of Copper Fox Distillery begins many years ago with how much owner Rick Wasmund loved the smell of burning wood. Rick’s discovery that he wanted something that did not exist, and the revelation that he could make a great American Single Malt Whisky struck a cord! Spirits at Copper Fox Distillery focus on the flavoring of the malt using the smoke of selected, smoldering fruit woods, and hand-cut, toasted fruit wood that add a range of natural flavors in the maturation process. |
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Veditz & Co. Brewing - 7G River Lane Sperryville - Veditz & Co. Brewery offers a variety of American-style beers and something more — a sense of inclusion. In addition to producing craft beer, Veditz works to provide jobs for the deaf community. The name Veditz is in honor of George Veditz, known for his efforts to promote the value and preservation of sign language.
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Hopkins Ordinary Ale Works - 47 Main Street Sperryville - Hopkins Ordinary Ale Works is proud to brew small batch craft beer in the cellar of the Bed and Breakfast. Our beers are made using local barley that is malted by our neighbors at Copper Fox Distillery, and feature local, seasonal ingredients whenever possible, such as hops, honey, fruit, and herbs. Using our one-barrel brewhouse, we are making a variety of beers over the course of the year, including some local favorites: Little Devil Blonde, Second Breakfast Stout, and Innkeeper’s IPA. Visit the brewery for a flight, a pint, or bottles or a growler to take with you!
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Pen Druid Brewery - 3863 Sperryville Pike Sperryville - Pen Druid Fermentation is a 27-acre permaculture operation at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah National Park in Rappahannock County, VA. The three brothers Lain, Van and Jennings Carney started Pen Druid in 2015 with Jonathan Staples after the three brothers had been touring in the psych-rock band Pontiak in North America and Europe. Pen Druid focuses on native yeast and spontaneous fermentation of beer using traditional methods employed in Belgium and Germany with the utilization of a coolship and a wood-fired brewhouse. Pen Druid also makes spontaneously fermented natural cider from local apples grown on a ninth-generation-owned family farm in Rappahannock County.
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Apple Atcha Cider - 3 Josh Ben Lane Sperryville - The old Estes Mill has been renovated and in it's new addition Apple Atcha Cider presses and ferments hard cider. One may enjoy several flavors of cider in the stone-walled downstairs of the old mill. The mill's second floor is home of the Appalachian Dulcimer Museum and houses a world-renowned collection of instruments and artifacts.
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WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ROAD IN AMERICA - SKYLINE DRIVE!
Click the pic to plan where to enter, exit, play, stay, and relax for the day when you come out our way!
See that fat blue squiggly line running straight down the middle of the Virginia map? That’s one of Americas’ protected treasures, Shenandoah National Park (SNP), 65 miles west of Washington D.C. in the Blue Ridge mountains.
Skyline Tasting Trail leads to the Thornton Gap Entrance of Skyline Drive at Shenandoah National Park
Click the pic to plan where to enter, exit, play, stay, and relax for the day when you come out our way!
See that fat blue squiggly line running straight down the middle of the Virginia map? That’s one of Americas’ protected treasures, Shenandoah National Park (SNP), 65 miles west of Washington D.C. in the Blue Ridge mountains.
Skyline Tasting Trail leads to the Thornton Gap Entrance of Skyline Drive at Shenandoah National Park
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AGRITOURISM
30 miles west of Washington DC is where DCs Kitchen begins.
Rural Farms dot the pastoral landscape through Fauquier, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties!
Agritourism is where agriculture and tourism meet to provide an amazing educational experience on the farm.
America is trying to keep farmland in farmland instead of becoming housing developments or industrial parks. You can help!
Farms are now allowed to open to the public to show you what they do and sell their products right on the farm!
Visit farm wineries, breweries and distilleries to taste and buy their products right on the farm.
Do a cheese-making, goat milking or wine tasting class.
Pick your own fruits and veggies.
Forage for fiddle head ferns and mushrooms.
Get a food CSA subscription for seasonal veggies.
Pick your own pumpkin. Cut your own Christmas tree.
Ride a horse. Cuddle with a baby goat.
Buy milk, eggs, honey, bread, veggies, fruit, beef, lamb, pork, poultry directly from the farm that produces the product.
Get fresh food in farm stores located right on a farm.
You can't get any fresher than that!
And you are saving a farm!
30 miles west of Washington DC is where DCs Kitchen begins.
Rural Farms dot the pastoral landscape through Fauquier, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties!
Agritourism is where agriculture and tourism meet to provide an amazing educational experience on the farm.
America is trying to keep farmland in farmland instead of becoming housing developments or industrial parks. You can help!
Farms are now allowed to open to the public to show you what they do and sell their products right on the farm!
Visit farm wineries, breweries and distilleries to taste and buy their products right on the farm.
Do a cheese-making, goat milking or wine tasting class.
Pick your own fruits and veggies.
Forage for fiddle head ferns and mushrooms.
Get a food CSA subscription for seasonal veggies.
Pick your own pumpkin. Cut your own Christmas tree.
Ride a horse. Cuddle with a baby goat.
Buy milk, eggs, honey, bread, veggies, fruit, beef, lamb, pork, poultry directly from the farm that produces the product.
Get fresh food in farm stores located right on a farm.
You can't get any fresher than that!
And you are saving a farm!
CLICK LINKS BELOW TO VISIT EACH AGRITOURISM WEBSITE
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