diff --git a/doc/whats-new.rst b/doc/whats-new.rst
index 9ee350e084d..2838e0b8e80 100644
--- a/doc/whats-new.rst
+++ b/doc/whats-new.rst
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ Bug fixes
 - Fix bug where plotting line plots with 2D coordinates depended on dimension
   order. (:issue:`3933`)
   By `Tom Nicholas <https://github.com/TomNicholas>`_.
+- Fix ``RasterioDeprecationWarning`` when using a ``vrt`` in ``open_rasterio``. (:issue:`3964`)
+  By `Taher Chegini <https://github.com/cheginit>`_.
 
 Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/xarray/backends/rasterio_.py b/xarray/backends/rasterio_.py
index d041e430db9..77beffd09b1 100644
--- a/xarray/backends/rasterio_.py
+++ b/xarray/backends/rasterio_.py
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ def open_rasterio(filename, parse_coordinates=None, chunks=None, cache=None, loc
             crs=vrt.crs.to_string(),
             resampling=vrt.resampling,
             src_nodata=vrt.src_nodata,
-            dst_nodata=vrt.dst_nodata,
+            nodata=vrt.nodata,
             tolerance=vrt.tolerance,
             transform=vrt.transform,
             width=vrt.width,