Ox-Eye Vineyards

The tasting room has been quiet since COVID-19 sent most the population into hibernation, some willingly, others less so. Now Governor...

Lemberger, that Austrian grape with the stinky cheese name, has been a mainstay at Ox-Eye Tasting Room since we opened. This...

This morning we stripped trunks. Sounds risqué, but it’s a chore like everything else. Stripping trunks involves snipping unwanted growth...

This Pinot Noir needs a haircut! (An old picture from a drier year. It was way worse this year, but I forgot to take a picture. The...

Spring Planting 2016 (I wrote this a month ago. I’m only now posting it. Info still good.) Today will be hot, I’m thinking 80’s. Saturday...

It’s February, and that means pruning in the vineyard. This morning the thermometer reads 17 degrees, and John says it’s so dry you can’t...

Heavy, green walnuts plunk to the ground. In the woods, splashes of rose, orange, and yellow testify fall has arrived and peak week is...

Tis the season to be shopping, and our tasting room has some great stocking stuffers, not to mention gifts for under the tree (or in the...

A couple nights ago, Virginia vineyards were hit with a freeze. On Ox-Eye, temperatures dipped down to 23 degrees. If we had had...

The unseasonably mild winter caused early bud break and much anxiety for Virginia winegrowers. The warm weather couldn’t last forever,...

In the Winery Lots happening in the winery. We bottled our third vintage under our own label last spring. We added a new wine to the...

Whoa! It’s been close to a year since I’ve made a blog entry. That’s mostly because I’ve been working hard on my novel (stop laughing)....

I apologize. John wrote this blog back in July, and he thought I had posted it, and I thought he had. So here’s late news! By John: This...

Here are a few recent pictures of tasting room, vineyard and winery activity. In March we had a new sign painted onto the tasting room...

BOTTLING THE 2011 WHITES Is it R2-D2? No. It’s a juice filter. Ox-Eye bottled the 2011 whites about a month ago. Samples from the vats...

To be in downtown Staunton, or not to be in downtown Staunton? The answer is, for us, to be in downtown Staunton. We realize that this...

Staunton has for good reason developed a reputation as not only a “foodie” town, but a “locavore” town. This means we in Staunton love...

Yesterday we had a pretty visitor in the tasting room. We have work being done upstairs, and when the workers arrived they found a...