Glen Manor is an attractive and sophisticated winery to be enjoyed by tourists as well as the most demanding of wine enthusiasts.
Winemaker: Jeff White
Surrounded by breathtaking scenery of the mountains, the winery’s state of the art facility and comfortable tasting room provides the appropriate setting for the stellar red and white wines produced here at the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains. You will likely find it evident that this winemaker is passionate and committed to his vineyards and in producing a highest quality product. The reception and service is dependably friendly.
Glen Manor Vineyards, located in Virginia approximately 70 miles due west of Washington D.C., is situated on a western flank of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 5 miles south from the north entrance to Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive. Nearby mountains, ranging between 1400 and 3400 feet in elevation, surround the vineyards forming a “Glen”. The vines are growing high on steep mountain slopes, in very deep and well drained rocky soils.
Tasting Room at Glen Manor Vineyards
The estate comprises 212 acres of pastures and forests, and currently 14.5 acres of vineyards. It is surrounded by neighboring farms and mountain forests and to the east we share a common border with Shenandoah National Park. Our farm is recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Century Farm for being owned and farmed by four generations of our family for over 100 years.
The original six acre vineyard, established in 1995, is comprised of Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot vines This mainly western exposed vineyard site rests between 1000 and 1200 feet in elevation with the valley floor below at 800 feet. The vineyard soils are Myersville-Catoctin Complex, with Chester Manor and Chester loam. The soils are deep and well drained with low to moderate available water holding capacity. These soils formed in weathered products of green schist, granodiorite and greenstone.
Glen Manor Vineyards
The vine density is 454 and 908 vines per acre. The vines were originally cordon trained and spur pruned but all have been converted to cane pruned and all are growing on the Open Lyre trellising system. A permanent covercrop grows between the rows and under the vines to aide in controlling the vines summertime growth. The red Bordeaux varieties are cropped at 2.0 to 2.5 tons per acre and the Sauvignon Blanc around 4 tons per acre.
Glen Manor Vineyards
Jeff White
www.glenmanorvineyards.com
gmvwine@glenmanorvineyards.com
540- 635-6324
Open: Friday – Sunday
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