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Come! For your pleasure, let me summon for you ancient peoples and adventures across time that have been hiding in your wine. Pop the cork, and discover their stories swirling in your glass…

The Vineyard

Wine’s Anvil stories are inspired by work in our family vineyard. Other than my wife’s arms or my daughter’s eyes, there is no greater paradise.

The Author

A past of writing about time, along with decades of wine industry exposure and research have led to the Wine’s Anvil series.

The Winery

We’ve poured our wine to over a quarter million tasters in our farm winery, and listened to their stories from all around the world.

Latest News

Summer in the vineyard.

Hickory Hill Vineyards in Summer

Fruit forming on the vines.

Fruit Forming at Hickory Hill Vineyards

Personal Log

November 7, 2020

Author’s log, Fall 2020; Jinn

September 9, 2020

Winery log, Fall 2020; Wine Diamonds

August 15, 2020

Author’s log, Summer 2020; Inspiration

July 20, 2020

Winery Log, Summer 2020; Oaking the wine

June 6, 2020

Vineyard log, Summer 2020; shoot thinning the wine

May 26, 2020

Vineyard log, Spring 2020; Bloom Damage

Donald Furrow-Scott bottles the history of grape growing and wine making into historical fiction novels spanning the centuries; stories with compelling notes of ancient legends and lingering hints of the supernatural. In the Wine’s Anvil series, the history of several wine varietals comes to life through a series of memorable characters and their inspiring adventures.

Furrow-Scott has decades of experience as a grape grower, cellar master, winemaker, and tasting room storyteller at Hickory Hill Vineyards near Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia.