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 Northam has issued a b...

Lemberger, that Austrian grape with the stinky cheese name, has been a mainstay at Ox-Eye Tasting Room since we opened. This not-so-well-known grape with pin...

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

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 Lemberger rows are 750 fe...

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 was in the mid 90’s...

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 see your breath. Pr...

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

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 cellar!) First off, ...

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

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

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 line-up: Shy Ox. This is...

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). But it’s early mornin...

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 is my first-ever blo...

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 building. Gropen, Inc....

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 showed bright acidity,...

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 goes against the Virgi...

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

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

New Year’s Eve in Ox-Eye’s Tasting room! Kind of. We’ll close at 4pm as we’re boring people and like our beauty sleep. This bugged some of our staff, who are...