Breweries, Cideries, Distilleries

The vineyards at Mount Ida Reserve span 27 acres between our High Ridge vineyard just over the hill from the Tasting Room to the north and Bell Mount vineyard overlooking historic Mount Ida Manor.

Tour the Ale Trail, a collection of craft breweries, cideries, and distilleries in and around Charlottesville, Virginia. Check off locations on your digital "passport" for bragging rights and an Ale Trail gift!

Serving select brews from constantly rotating taps and one-off beers in Charlottesville’s Belmont neighborhood, Champion’s laid back taproom is just blocks off the downtown mall.

Our ambition is to produce wines that let our vineyards speak for themselves, showing what their soil has.

One of Charlottesville’s most well known breweries, Three Notch’d started out in their humble tasting room on Preston Ave, and has since branched out to multiple Virginia locations. 

Come for the locally brewed craft beer, wood-fired pizza, and weekly community events including a Run Club, Charity Bingo, and Trivia Night.

Starr Hill is one of Charlottesville’s first craft breweries, born in 1999 and still going strong as they’ve expanded to six taproom locations in Virginia.

Rockfish has two great locations downtown, one on Preston Ave and one on the downtown mall just blocks away.