Your visit will probably come down to what’s open: both Linden (case club members only on Saturday) and Delaplane Cellars (spectacular mountainside setting in a beauitful tasting room with floor to ceiling windows; '12 Williams Gap and '13 Petit Manseng are excellent) are closed on Wednesday.
Glen Manor is also spectacular and open. Sitting on a lounge chair in back of it looks and feels like the Austrian or Swiss countryside. They still have 2010 Hodder Hill available along with their '13 Petit Manseng and '11 Rapheus which is arguably VA’s best dessert wine. I am a huge fan of this winery and much prefer it to Barboursville.
Grace Estates is my favorite winery in the CV area. Literally, this is a 20,000 square foot mansion on top of a mountain west of CV with a 30-40 mile view. You’ll drive up a paved road for a mile and a half through vineyards to get to it. Their '12 Tannat is excellent and a real value at $28. King Family Estate and Veritas are actually sold out of their better reds as of a visit two weeks ago. (Although Veritas has a very good port like dessert wine.) Pollak has a nice setting but their winemaker moved to Grace which is almost unknown by most and only opened their temporary (mansion) tasting room to the public a year or so ago.
Hillsborough is beautiful but their '12 Onyx is a disappointment and this is their best red. Nearby Sunset Hills has an excellent Mosaic which was part of the recent Governor’s Case. Bluemont has a beautiful setting with literal 40 mile views. Weakness is their wine excepting the Cab Franc Reserve which was in the Governor’s Cup. Problem is that, I think, they are sold out of it.
Breaux has a new tasting room which has not opened yet but is worth a visit for a different reason: their '07 Nebbiolo ($60) is worth every penny. While very different from '09 Octagon (Barboursville’s best red ever) it is a remarkable wine for VA. It is sold ONLY at Breaux. They also have a new winemaker from Napa who arrived three months ago.
RDV is not user friendly. You can go with a resevation but it is structured. Spending $75 or 95 for a bottle and sitting out for a couple of hours is not an option. A real negative since this is a beautiful setting and botht he Roundezvous and Lost Mountain are excellent. They also have a third label which they do not sell but, as of a month ago, was available at Early Mountain which is Steve Case’s winery off of route 29. Early Mountain is beautiful and 10-15 miles this side of Barboursville. They carry a dozen or so wines from others including, depending on availability, Glen Manor, Ankida Ridge (pinot noir), Barboursville, etc.
FWIW, Jim Dolphin at Delaplane, Jeff White at Glen Manor, Rutger at RDV, the owner of the new Maggie Malick and the owner of Chester Gap (one interesting full bodied 15.5% red) all spent time at Linden. I believe Jim Law is the single most influential person in the VA wine industry.
Bottom line: go to Glen Manor and don’t leave without buying a bottle of Hodder Hill or at least trying a glass.
Last: Glen Manor makes a great petit verdot. Linden’s best wine is their '10 Boisseau which I started another thread about: Virginia Wine: The National Stage? - WINE TALK - WineBerserkers