Briede Family Vineyards - Winchester, Virginia

bobbi h

We visited for the first time this past weekend and had an excellant experience! Everyone was super friendly, lovely atmosphere and great wines. They also have an amazing assortment of French cheeses that they serve with fresh bread. Not into cheese, they offer assorted meats, olives and spreads too.
There is seating on 2 levels in their tasting room (which was the former horse barn) as well as patio seating over looking the vineyard.
You can order tasting flights, by the glass and bottles. They offer table service too which is a nice bonus.
They also often have live music.
The staff went out of their way to make every guest feel welcomed! We will be back

Lauri Ricker

My husband and I were looking for a winery to visit in the Winchester area. We saw Breide Family Vineyards and decided to stop for the afternoon. I am so happy that we did! The wines were delicious. Please try the sparkling wines when you visit the winery. The staff was knowledgeable and very friendly. And, to our delight we were able to meet one of the owners, Loretta. Our entire experience wonderful.

Kelly Scott

I absolutely love this winery! Been coming here for a couple of years and it’s always so relaxing. Today I decided to go ahead and join the wine club. I’m so glad I did. The wines are delicious and the staff is amazing! Love that they have live music as well. It’s just such a lovely, friendly atmosphere.

5-Star ExecutiveChauffeuring,LLC

We have been taking our clients to vineyards such as Brieded that offers no less than 5 Star services. The family friendly staff continue to give 100 percent quality customer service. Our clients enjoy the small intimate connection, wwine tours on their new cart, superior quality award winning wines. Leaving you will learn more about their wines the staff are very passionate about.
Our clients also mostly enjoy the weekend entertainment. It's not unusually for our clients to leave with a case if wine.
Thank you Briede Family for taking auxh great care of our clientele ans drivers.

Clay Smith

Joy and I had a relaxing visit and joyed the music of Bryan Stutzman along with their great selection of wines. We took a bottle of their chocolate home with us. An additional surprise was seeing an old friend, Steve Kisner, working the tasting room. We will definitely be back regulaly.

Maureen Frevert

I can not say enough good things about our first visit to the Briede Family Vineyards. The wines were wonderful, the hospitality even better. If you are looking for a place that offers delicious wines (grown responsibly) with a gorgeous view I would recommend The Briede Family Vineyards.

Diana Cummings

Briede Family Vineyards is absolutely amazing. Their wines are top notch, the atmosphere is breath taking. Mr and Mrs Briede are very warm welcoming hosts , I highly recommend this vineyard. A+++++++++ for everything.

VAWineNB

Briede Family Vineyards is the epitome of a boutique winery. For those unfamiliar with the term, boutique winery typically translates to less production to focus on higher quality; less events-driven (don't expect many live bands playing in a boutique winery); and many are 21 and up and/or dogs not permitted. In the case of Briede Family Vineyards, dogs are permitted on the lawn areas and patio, but not in the tasting room or pavilion. And well-behaved children are welcome (check their website for details).

The wines at Briede Family are special in that they are all hybrids, made through sustainable practices. So don't expect the usual suspects for Virginia wine here (chardonnay, cab franc, petit manseng, viognier, etc.) They do have wines you won't find in most other Virginia wineries, such as Cayuga white, a hybrid developed at Cornell and common in many Finger Lakes wineries. I've had Cayuga White during visits to the Finger Lakes and their styles up there are too sweet for me. But the version Briede Family creates is more balanced, definitely drier, and fruit-forward. Very good, especially chilled on a hot day. Another very unique wine here is Agathosune, dubbed an "orange wine," but not because its made with oranges. Basically orange wine is created using white varietal grapes but made in a red wine style. It tastes very much like a chardonnay so it should be a pleaser to the chard drinkers in your group.

I didn't try the reds (too hot) but they had a solid offering of those, including a Tannat. Outside, there are nicely kept grounds, a covered pavilion (no dogs allowed), and trails that lead to the vineyards, which are "watched over" by sunflowers, which attract the pollinators which are a bit helpful in the grape-growing process.

The tasting room manager Liz is very knowledgeable about their wines and wines in general. A great host!

I give Briede Family five stars mainly because I don't want to break their streak of 5-star reviews. It's more of a 4 1/2 star place for me, mainly because the prices are quite high and that deters me from taking bottles home.

It's a bit out of the way - about 20 minutes north of downtown Winchester off a country road. Have a map handy as WiFi signal, at least for me, was not great in this area of Virginia. The West Virginia border is only 3 miles away, making this I believe the closest Virginia winery to the WV line.