Come out to Philip Carter Winery to uncork and unwind with Yoga in the Vineyard put on by Wildfire Yoga! Take an hour-long class from Wildfire Yoga’s very own, Michelle Hamer, in the serene hills of the vineyard and get a complimentary glass of wine! Check out their website to see other class offerings happening now! https://wildfireyoga.org/
All ticket sales through Wildfire Yoga.
We welcome all our wine club members to the winery for a Wine Club Release Mixer. Chat with PCW’s staff and fellow club members. Get a chance to taste the wines that you are getting in your wine club pickup. Also, take advantage of our Club Mixer deal to add an additional bottle of one of your pick up wines to your shipment for 50% off. Enjoy complimentary Peach Sangria!
We are looking forward to seeing our Wine Club Members!
Come and join Philip Carter’s winemaker for a vineyard talk and picnic. Hike up to the exceptional Strother Family vineyard at our sister location, Valley View Farm.
Philip Carter’s NEW award-winning winemaker Alejandro Francia will lead the hike and talk about what it takes to make our award-winning wines. Learn about bio-dynamic and natural wine trends and sustainable agriculture.
After the hike, join us for a picnic lunch provided by Grazeful and a glass of wine in the beautiful blossoming Peach Orchards at Valley View Farm.
Tickets are $22 per person
Reservations are needed by Thursday, May 19th.
We welcome all of our wine club members to the come out to the winery for a Wine Club Release Mixer. Chat with PCW’s staff and fellow club members. Get a chance to taste the wines that you are getting in your wine club pickup! Also, brand new, take advantage of our new Club Mixer deal to add an additional bottle of one of your pick-up wines to your shipment for 50% off. Complimentary Mulled Wine included!
Reservations not required but suggested.
On May 6th, we celebrate Virginia’s native grape, the Norton. Norton was first cultivated in 1820 on Magnolia Farm located in Richmond, Virginia by Dr. Daniel Norton. Over the remainder of the 19th century, the Norton grape varietal grew in importance as a wine producer especially adapted to the conditions of eastern North America. In 1873, a Norton wine was declared the “best red wine of all nations” at a worldwide competition in Vienna. Many of the nation’s finest hotels and restaurants stocked Virginia vintages, and President U.S. Grant is known to have kept a righteous supply in his White House cellars.
In celebration of this important day in American wine culture, we are offering our customers a 30% bottle discount on all bottles of our Magnolia Farm! Maximum two cases per person.
WINE CLUB MEMBERS: receive a discount at 40% off.
AMBASSADOR CLUB: purchase a case and get 50% off! Today and every day!
Come out to see local musician, Darryl Marini, play at Philip Carter Winery from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm.
Come out to see local musician, Robbie Limon, play at Philip Carter Winery from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm.
Philip Carter honors our active and retired heroes of the classroom with a 20% discount on all wine bottle purchases during the entire Teacher Appreciation Week- May 2nd through May 6th. Take this opportunity to come out with your fellow teachers to enjoy!
ID required.
On April 22nd, we celebrate the life of Charles Carter of Cleve (ca. 1707–1764), who in 1762 received the first international recognition for producing excellent wine in Virginia in 1762. Charles Carter, 5th child born of Colonel Robert “King” Carter and Elizabeth Landon-Wells was born in Lancaster County, Virginia, and resided in Lancaster and King George County, Virginia. In 1754, he built Cleve Plantation and its magnificence vied with seats of his brothers, John of Shirley, Robert of Nomini, Landon of Sabine Hall, and with the homes of his sisters, Anne of Berkeley and Judith of Rosewell.
In 1759, a committee of the Virginia assembly was formed and charged with the question of economic diversification, a question made urgent by the depression in the tobacco trade. As its chairman, Charles Carter entered into correspondence with Peter Wyche in London, chairman of the agriculture committee for the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce (now the Royal Society of Arts), which offered prizes for various desirable enterprises in the colonies, among them vine growing and winemaking. Carter’s correspondence reveals that the prospects and methods for the cultivation of the grape in Virginia were an important subject. Carter had already begun grape growing at Cleve, where he made wines from both native and European grapes, and it was natural that he should have chosen commercial winemaking as one of his proposals for economic reform in Virginia.
The London society took an encouraging view of Carter’s proposals and recommended various vines and practices, including the trial of distilling brandy from the native grapes. In 1762 Carter, who by then had 1,800 vines growing at Cleve, sent to the London society a dozen bottles of his wine, made from the American winter grape and from a vineyard of “white Portugal summer grapes.” These samples were so pleasing to taste—“they were both approved as excellent wines,” the society’s secretary wrote—that on October 20, 1762, the society awarded Carter a gold medal as the first person to make a “spirited attempt towards the accomplishment of their views, respecting wine in America.” Mr. Carter died on April 26, 1764.
In celebration of this important day in American wine culture, we are offering our customers a 30% bottle discount on all bottles of our 2019 Cleve! Maximum two case per person.
WINE CLUB MEMBERS: receive a discount at 40% off.
AMBASSADOR CLUB: purchase a case and get 50% off! Today and every day!
We invite you to join us for our Vertical Tasting traditions. The tasting will include vintages of 3 wines spanning from the last decade. A vertical tasting is arranged to taste different vintages of the same style of wine. Conversely, a horizontal tasting is arranged to taste the same style of wine from different producers or vineyard lots from the same vintage.
Limited availability of these wines will available for purchase!
Reservations suggested. $25 per person.