Wine Reviews and Guides

We’ve been all over the state, sampling and writing wine reviews from so many great NC Wineries.  Use this page to help discover NC Wine and find out more about what the state is doing.  To help organize the information, it is broken out into different topic areas.

 

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Yadkin Valley
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Western North Carolina Wine Trail
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East Coast of North America
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New York State
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Our Thoughts on Wine

Aside from reviews, we love to share our thoughts on the state of wine, what it means to us, and some general tips.  Here you'll find op-ed style posts on various topics related to wine.

Our Thoughts on Wine

Reviews from other sources

Blogs and Publications

Gravity Magazine – Charlotte’s own Gravity Magazine is a new publication that is dedicated to the craft beverage scene. In Charlotte that generally means beer, but inside you’ll also find articles on spirits, cider, wine, and more!

Tarheel Taps and Corks – A Raleigh based blog who loves local food, beer, and wine. Lots of research goes into each posting with interviews and commentary from local industry leaders throughout.

The Wine Mouths – Our counterparts in the NC Wine world. Join the Wine Mouths as they drink their way through North Carolina and post must-know info about NC wineries.

NC Beer Guys – The NC Beer Guys are our counterpart in the wide world of NC Beer. Carolina Glenn and Dave travel the state, sampling boat loads of beer while also keeping an up to date list of NC breweries and events.

For industry resources and links to official regional pages, visit our Industry Resources page.

Do you have a wine that you'd like us to review? We would love to!  Head over to our Wine Review and Guides request page for more details.

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The Latest Episode of Cork Talk:

16
Sep
2020
Preserving the Family Farm

Preserving the Family Farm

In this episode, we interview Shruthi Dhoopati and Jeff Frisbee of Addison Farms Vineyards in Leicester, NC. Jeff tells us about the history of the vineyard and how it started out as farmland for his grandparents. After raising tobacco and cattle, Jeff decided that a good way to preserve the family farm would be to plant grapes.

In 2009, he planted his first grapes with subsequent plantings every year until 2013. Now his vineyard contains nearly 6 acres of vines and 5 key varietals, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Petit Manseng, and Sangiovese.

Shruthi tells us about some of the difficulties with managing vines in Western North Carolina and how she’s embracing more traditional vine pruning techniques to bring out different characteristics in the wines. She is excited to see how quickly the quality of the fruit and wine is improving in the state and is hopeful that more people are seeing this, too.

Wine Class with the Wine Mouths is back! This time Jesse and Jessica talk to us about wine faults and how you can spot them. For more information about the Wine Mouths, head to https://www.winemouths.com/ or find them on Facebook and Instagram @Winemouths. The Wine Mouths theme was written and performed by Joshua Morris. You can find him at twitter.com/joshtimejosh.

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This episode was made possible in part by a grant from the North Carolina Wine and Grape Council. For more information, please visit https://www.ncwine.org/

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