***Please note that this Your Guide To The Best Dog-Friendly Wineries in Northern Virginia (2026 Edition) travel guide will be updated and recirculated periodically to reflect the most up-to-date Virginia Wine scene. This guide was most recently updated as of October 2026.***
If you’re like me and you want to bring your four-legged friends with you everywhere you go, then YOU’RE IN LUCK: this guide outlines the best dog-friendly wineries in Northern Virginia! Each of these dog-friendly wineries in Northern Virginia outlined in this guide have been visited by me, personally, to ensure that they’re safe, welcoming, and wonderful places to bring your dog.
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Your Guide To The Best Dog-Friendly Wineries in Northern Virginia (2026 Edition)
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Dog-Friendly Northern Virginia Wineries
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Dog-Friendly Wineries in Northern Virginia
868 Estate Vineyards
Address: 14001 Harpers Ferry Road, Purcellville
About: Dating back to 2012 when 3 families – Peter and Nancy Deliso, Wendy and Chris Charron, and Carl and Erin DiManno – came together to create a place where communities can come together and enjoy events, savor a glass of wine, and simply be together. Today, that place is 868 Estate Vineyards!
8 Chains North Winery
Address: 38593 Daymont Lane, Waterford
About: 8 Chains North Winery is a working farm, event venue, winery, and brewery near Leesburg, Virginia that gets is name from the first vineyard on its grounds that were used as a Civil War Crossing known as 8 Chains. This farm, event venue, winery, and brewery is also extremely dog-friendly with a fenced area for your four-legged friends to run around at while you savor a glass of wine.
Barrel Oak Winery and Brewery
Address: 3623 Grove Lane, Delaplane
About: Also known as “BOW”, Barrel Oak Winery and Brewery values itself on passion, commitment, and fine wine as well as a friendly place for everyone to bring your dog both indoors and outdoors. Everyone truly feels right at home at Barrel Oak Winery and Brewery, whether human or canine!
Blue Valley Vineyard and Winery
Address: 5535 Blue Valley Way, Delaplane
About: With Greek mountainside roots in winemaking, the Zissios family brought a piece of Greece to Northern Virginia through opening Blue Valley Vineyard and Winery in the Shenandoah Valley to the public in 2015. To this day, Blue Valley Vineyard and Winery is still family-owned and runs on the Greek value of respect, ensuring that everyone who walks through its doors are treated like family.
Casanel Vineyards & Winery
Address: 17952 and 17956 Canby Road, Leesburg
About: Shaped in their three core values of people, passion, and a sense of place, owners Casey and Nelson DeSouza planted their roots at what is now Casanel Vineyards & Winery in 2006. With a lot of hard work, authenticity, and a whole lot of celebration, the DeSouza’s have created a place where everyone can come together no matter who they are for a glass of wine (or a mocktail) and leave having a great time. Today, the values of people, passion, and a sense of place still reign true at Casanel as the winery has several offerings to enjoy whether it be enjoying a glass or flight in their tasting room or outside at their patio or balcony, or a stroll around the grounds’ gazebo, everyone will be sure to have a great time!
Paradise Springs Winery
Address: 13219 Yates Ford Road, Clifton
About: One of the closest wineries to Washington, DC, Paradise Springs Winery is a bicoastal winery with a location in Santa Barbara, California as well as in Clifton, Virginia. Guests can enjoy the winery’s gorgeous grounds and scenery in the heart of Clifton, Virginia as well as different food trucks that come to visit.
Potomac Point Winery & Vineyard
Address: 275 Decatur Road, Stafford
About: Located in Stafford County with an onsite bistro, Potomac Point Winery & Vineyard offers an elegant twist to the vineyard experience. Be sure to indulge in a delicious meal and one of their wine-soaked cakes at their onsite bistro and take in all of the lovely scenic views.
Three Fox Vineyards & Brewery
Address: 10100 Three Fox Lane, Delaplane
About: A family and dog-friendly winery and brewery with a pizza shed overlooking the Shenandoah mountains, Three Fox Vineyards & Brewery is a welcoming place for everyone to enjoy a fun vineyard outing. Be sure to check out the beautiful onsite meadow and creek – perfect for kids and dogs to soak in some sunshine – and enjoy some wine at one of their tables in the vines! Read my full review on Three Fox Vineyards & Brewery here.
Twin Oaks Tavern Winery
Address: 18035 Raven Rocks Road, Bluemont
About: Twin Oaks Tavern Winery is a two-generation, woman-owned winery on the foothill of the Shenandoah mountains. Located in the Bear’s Den Historic District, Twin Oaks Tavern is one of many stone houses built from 1890-1920 and was transformed into a winery in 1999 after a fire burned much of its original structure down in the 1980s. Today, Twin Oaks Tavern Winery is a welcoming place that’s also dog-friendly.
Wrap-Up
Personally, I feel that dogs make everything better, especially when they can visit our favorite Northern Virginia wineries with us!
XOXO – Katie <3
