Winery
Are you ready to experience Laughing Fox?
Open the bottle. Watch the light, bubbling
wine spill into your glass. Take a sip. Cool, crisp,
and with a twist of fruit, we strive to produce
a causal, local wine that can be enjoyed
on any occasion.
In addition to our sparkling
wines made from locally-harvested fruit and
Chardonnay, Seyval, Riesling grapes grown
right here in Southern Virginia, we offer an
eclectic range of fermented fruit wines, which
are made seasonally to use fresh fruit, trusted
and tasted for flavor, rather than importing
fruit trucked across country.
Haven't heard of
Laughing Fox wines? We invited you to come
visit us, have a bite to eat at our restaurant, or
enjoy a glass of wine while perusing our adjacent
gallery or listening to a local musician.
Check our calendar for details on upcoming
events; we're located in Amherst, Virginia.
Why Laughing Fox? What makes us different?
Our key focus is in
providing sweet, delicious
fruit wines and blended sparkling wines made
from naturally ripened fruit, which has not been
imported across oceans or
sprayed with chemicals to keep it fresh. We
buy only from local farms and only those fruits
which are in season, so while you will not be
seeing banana or mango infused wine from us,
we promise to gather the most fresh
blackberries, red raspberries, apples, peaches,
plums and other native Virginian fruits that we
can find.
And you may be wondering how exactly Laughing Foxes relate to wine? Well we wanted a name that captured the imagination and took a step beyond normal. There are foxes of course, simply as there are other fruity wines. But our fox is laughing because our wines are made with fresh fruit juice blended into a sparkling white wine, and served in a contemporary environment of art and music and why wouldn't you laugh in enjoyment? It is a challenge to the status quo and a challenge you can join.
Throughout the year Laughing Fox has special
events or festivals that occur at its winery,
many are free to attend or involved a cheap
cover fee. Twice a month Laughing Fox welcomes
local musicians into its restaurant for an
evening of food, wine, and music and we invite
you to join us as well.
Join Laughing Fox for an evening of music, drink, and dance out in the meadows among the fireflies. Bluegrass band "Strangers in the Rye" will be playing and Sarah Lee will be a caller for some contra.
Indie-rock Blue Penny will be playing at Laughing Fox Winery on August 14th at 7:30. Come to the restaurant to hear some great music with guitar players Tevon Michaels and Jerome Henderson, with vocals by Nancy Ciscile.
Up from the Smoky Mountains, the folk band "Flannel Sheets" will entertain us with their original music and recycled percussion and string instruments.
Laughing Fox Winery also has a restaurant where you can come to enjoy a bite to eat, sample our wines, or hear some good music. Restaurant hours are 5pm-11pm Friday and Saturday. Menu is subject to change based on availability of ingredients.
Laughing Fox invites artists who capture the world in a unique perspective through fine art, sculpture, photography, or other means to showcase their works in our gallery, where you can come and see them for free. The gallery is open 6pm-10pm Sunday through Tuesday and 5pm-1pm Friday and Saturday.
Photographer Marie Ryan brings a series of
images that seize civilization and reflect in back
into our eyes in through a means that causes us
to pause and consider the everyday-object as
something new and visually engaging.