Brandermill's New Winery Named Its Wines After Local Neighborhoods. The Winemaking Comes Later.
October 8, 2026
October 8, 2026
Waters Edge Winery Midlothian opened on August 17 at 2201 Chartermark Drive, just off Charter Colony Parkway. Its wine list carries the names of the neighborhoods around it, and its October calendar has something on most Tuesdays and Fridays. One thing it hasn't done yet is make wine in the building. That order was on purpose. Paul and Rebecca Williams own the local franchise, and they opened the room people gather in before the production line in back.
That order explains most of what you'll find there this fall: the bottles, the events, and the parts that are still on the way.
Waters Edge calls its locations urban wineries. The winery's own site puts it plainly: "we do not grow or crush the grapes – we outsource those functions to a global network of vineyards and growers." Grapes and juice come in from growing regions elsewhere, and the plan is to finish the wine on site with equipment guests can watch. That model is why a working winery fits in a 7,400-square-foot commercial building in a new retail center near Brandermill. Titan Construction Group built the shell for owner Riverstone Group, and the Williamses spent more than a year on the buildout.
The production room is built and sits at the back of the building. When Richmond BizSense covered the opening on September 8, Paul Williams said on-site winemaking would start "sometime in the near future." His plan was to soft launch first and work through the roughly 5,000 bottles already on hand. We haven't found any announcement since then that production has started, so for now everything you pour comes from the franchise network.
The Midlothian location is the second Waters Edge in Virginia, after Norfolk. The Williamses first found the brand on a visit to the Norfolk winery.
The wines were made far from Chesterfield, but their names come from the map around Charter Colony Parkway. Virginia Hospitality News pointed out the local naming in its September 13 write-up. The winery's current menu shows how far it goes.
The Brandermill bottle comes from Armenia, and the Walton Park bottle comes from the California coast. With no Virginia vines behind the names, the local part of the list is the names themselves. For anyone who lives in one of those neighborhoods, the low-inventory and back-in-November notes are worth watching, because the bottle with your street's name on it may not be there in a few weeks.
Paul Williams told BizSense what he thinks the business is for, and his answer had nothing to do with wine.
"This isn't really an entertainment space, but it's a social meeting point space," he said. "There just isn't anything. The nearest you can get is probably over at Winterfield (Crossing), but … it's not local to here. We have people who walk here. We have a lady who's been here everyday, literally walks across the road … people like that it's in their community."
The building is set up for that. It holds about 250 people, including a separate event space, and has a patio and a bar. The food is a bistro menu, not a tasting-room snack list. It runs from appetizers and charcuterie to flatbreads, sandwiches, salads and entrées, all made in a kitchen of nearly 1,000 square feet. At opening, BizSense listed a three-cheese melt with raspberry preserves and a prosciutto, fig and goat cheese flatbread. Williams said the food menu would grow slowly.
The wine club shows the same idea. BizSense reported about 80 members within weeks of opening. Members currently pick up their bottles in person. The brand's own site says monthly pickups are meant to bring people back through the door.
The clearest evidence for the meeting-point idea is the October events calendar. Most of it is built around local clubs and repeat performers, and most of it lands on a Tuesday or a Friday.
Mahjong with Commonwealth Tile Club, 6 to 8 p.m. on October 6 and October 13. The club also played there on September 29, so this has been a weekly habit for three weeks running.
The Trunk or Treat shows how the place works. Three Centerpointe Commons businesses are throwing one party together. Waters Edge isn't running it alone.
Glasses run about $8 to $21. Most bottles start at $30 to $40, and a few reach $60 to $80. Your timing affects what you can order. The $15 tasting gives you five 1-ounce pours from across the list, but it's not available to non-members on Friday or Saturday after 4 p.m. The $20 flight gives you four 2-ounce pours picked by the winemaker, and you can order it any time. If you're coming for Friday trivia, plan on the flight.
Sources give slightly different figures for the wine club. BizSense put membership at $45 to $75 a month for two hand-picked bottles plus discounts. Virginia Hospitality News, citing the winery's own listing, described four tiers from $40 to $75. Ask at the bar for the current tiers.
The hours have changed since opening. September coverage reported 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The winery's site now lists Monday closed, Tuesday and Wednesday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Sunday hours posted on the site look like a typo, so call (804) 653-7398 before a Sunday visit. Reservations are taken online through the winery's site.
There are three things to watch this fall and next year.
Once the coffee shop opens, the center near the Charter Colony and Brandermill parkways intersection will have a morning stop alongside the evening one.
A new place nearby that people can walk to is one of the details buyers ask about, and it usually doesn't show up in a listing. When we list a home near Brandermill and Woodlake, the Pretty Properties team puts places like Chartermark Drive in the marketing, because that's part of what a buyer gets when they move there. If you're curious what your home near Brandermill could sell for this fall, request a free home valuation and we'll show you how we'd present it.
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