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Our new Great Room
Come visit our new Great Room. Plan your next visit to our lovely vineyard. Taste excellent wines, receive personal service, and escape the large crowds in a boutique setting that is inviting and relaxing.
Apr 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Excited about our wins at the Atlantic Seaboard Competition
We were so excited to receive 14 medals at the Alantic Seaboard Competition. In addition to the 14 medals, 2 of our wines won best of catagory. Best White Hybrid Other, and Best Port.
This competition covers the entire Atlantic Seaboard (17 states) so a very exciting win.
Apr 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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The great room
This space hold about 40 people We have 4 dining tables that hold 6 for a total of 24 seats. Additional seating in two separate living room groups and several other seats. This is such an upscale setting with beautiful French doors that line the entire wall looking out to our gravel patio with trees. The large stone fireplace warms the room with a crackling fire that only a real fireplace can do This room has pleanty of room for your guests and decorated with many old antique pieces Please contact info@briedevineyards.com or call 540-664-2048 to book your special event
Mar 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Our Expansion
We are very excited to share with you our improvement in our facility.
Here is a sneak preview!!!!!
As you all know, we are, and will continue to be a small boutique winery. In that mindset, many of the rooms we are adding are for the operation of the vineyard, wine making area (paul is making some fun Cayuga Rye), storage which is huge for us as we have lots of our wine being stored off site, but we didn't forget about you....our customers.
We have expanded our space with a huge 5' fireplace where you can sit and sip on our fabulous wines. This space will allow for larger groups and some dining tables as opposed to our comfortable living room atmosphere. We think you are going to like our French Country Space with some lovely antiques to adorn the tasting room. Stop by to take a peak on where we are, follow our progress. Our completion should be with the next 30-60 days.
All the very best this holiday season.
Paul & Loretta Briede
Dec 4, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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Briedé Family Vineyards Achieves Remarkable Success at the 2024 Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association Competition
Winchester, VA – August 15, 2024 – Briedé Family Vineyards is thrilled to announce its remarkable success at the 2024 Atlantic Seaboard Wine Competition. As a testament to exceptional winemaking and an unwavering commitment to excellence using primarily hybrid grapes, three of Briedé Family Vineyards' exquisite wines have been awarded Gold medals.
To help identify the best of the best, the Atlantic Seaboard Wine Association (ASWA) holds an annual wine competition, the largest in the nation focused exclusively on the wines of the East Coast. The competition covers the 17 states from Maine to Florida that border the Atlantic, also including Vermont, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The professional competition judges hail from all parts of the country and many facets of the wine trade.
Gold Medal Winners:
2023 Le Meilleur – this newly released wine is made primarily from the hybrid grape La Crescent with 10% Traminette added for a beautifully balanced wine with lovely floral notes.
2023 Riesling – As described by world-renowned wine critic Julie Harding of JancisRobinson.com, “Pure, scented lemon-and-lime freshness and a hint of mango. Sweet lemons all the way to the rounded, soft but balanced mouth-watering finish… acidity and fruit are excellent partners…impressive depth of flavour.”
2021 Stuurboord Port-Style Wine – a lovely Port-style wine made with Tannat and aged with Brandy for three years in French Oak Barrels.
These Gold Medal winning wines reflect not only the incredible work of our highly regarded winemaker, Nate Walsh, and the high standards of owners Paul and Loretta Briedé, but also our unwavering commitment to growing high quality and very versatile hybrid grapes.
In addition, two Briedé wines received “Best in Category” honors:
Other White Hybrid/NA Varietal – 2023 Le Meilleur
Port-Styled Wines – 2021 Stuurboord
Five Briedé wines received Silver medals:
2023 Arandell Special Reserve
2022 Chocolate Red
2023 Guthrie Cab Franc
2020 Sparkling Winchester
Another six Briedé wines won Bronze medals, totaling an impressive 14 medals overall.
Paul and Loretta expressed their excitement over this achievement: “Winning these awards is quite an honor, and a wonderful validation of our passion for making exceptional wines. Every bottle reflects our dedication to hybrid grapes and our desire to produce the highest quality wines. We’re also honored to play a small part in elevating the Virginia wine industry and, of course, our Shenandoah AVA.”
Briedé Family Vineyards invites all wine lovers to visit our scenic vineyards in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley and savor our many award-winning wines!
The complete list of ASWA 2024 medal winners can be found here.
Be the first to comment on this postVineyard tours by wheels
Come join us and visit our vineyard by wheels.
Too hot to walk, or maybe you want to sip on a glass of wine while the vineyard comes to you Please call 540-664-2048 to make your reservation for an up close and personal tour hosted by vineyard owner Loretta Briede. We can seat 3 people maximum, but can always take a second tour.
$15/per person. Club members are for free.
Lean about the vines, our history, taste the grapes, and experience a hands on tour of our vines. This makes a fun gift or outing. Book your reservation today.
We are an operating farm, and sometimes the vineyards tours are closed to the public, so please be sure to make your reservation by calling 540-664-2048 to book your ride.
Cheers
Aug 5, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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Veraison in the Vineyard
Veraison in the Vineyard
This gowing season started with a fair amount of rain. It has now moved to mostly dry. We have had about 1.1 inches in the past month. Normal would be about 3.5.
We planted an additional 600 vines (300 marquette, 300 Chambourcin) this spring. Thankfully we installed a watering system. After so many years of carting hoses around through the vineyard we decided to just install the irrigation system.
Due to late spring freezing our crop loads are down. Arandell picked up some Scale and now in recovery. We have treated the infestation and the vines are looking great.
With the expected hurricane season predicted to produce more hurricanes this year than ever, we do expect to see some bands of rain coming this way. Harvest is a time when you want little rain, dry concentrated fruit produces excellent wines. We shall see how the month of August developes.
Jul 18, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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Vineyard update
The vineyard had some early rains during the spring with a damaging freeze in April. The temperature dipped to 28 degrees. It seems typical every year that this low lying area gets hit with freezing tempatures during bud break. To respond to this issue we decided to add more grapes utilizing our back field which has a higher elevation. We planted 600 more vines. (300 Marquette and 300 Chambourcin). Chambourcin is new to our vineyard and we are excited to see how it does at our location.
It will take 3 years before we see fruit from this planting. We expect a yield of about 1 1/2 tons per varietal.
Jun 11, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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