Top Awards in Wines of the South
Categories: Awards, Best Wineries in Tennessee, Nine Lakes Wine Country, Wineries
Winemakers from Nine Lakes Wine Country took home dozens of awards recently from the Wines of the South Regional Wine Competition. Our last blog post listed the six “Best of” awards. In addition to those, there were six Concordance Gold Awards (meaning all the judges gave the wine gold), nine gold medals, and 37 silver […]
Read More »Event combines hot air balloons and Tennessee wine
Categories: Best Wineries in Tennessee, Events, Nine Lakes Wine Country, Wine Festivals
We have noticed that folks LOVE watching hot air balloons on a beautiful summer evening. They enjoyed it in droves at the first-ever Great Smoky Mountain Hot Air Balloon Festival August 19 in Townsend, Tennessee. The event was put on by the Townsend Visitors Center, and drew an estimated 10,000 people to the peaceful side […]
Read More »Small Farmer of the Year!
Categories: Awards, Best Wineries in Tennessee, Nine Lakes Region, Nine Lakes Wine Country, Tennessee American Viticultural Area, Wineries
We’re super proud of winemaker and vineyard grower Nikki Riddle, who has been named “Tennessee Small Farmer of the Year, at the Small Farm Expo July 20. She also received the Alternative Enterprise Award. Nikki is an award-winning winemaker and owner of The Winery at Seven Springs Farm in Maynardville, which is part of the Great […]
Read More »East Tennessee Wines Win Big in North Carolina Wine Competition
Categories: Awards, Best Wineries in Tennessee
Let’s raise our glasses to the wineries of East Tennessee’s Nine Lakes Wine Country! They did incredibly well at the Asheville Wine Competition in North Carolina recently. Of the 9 Double-Gold medals given by judges at the 2017 Asheville Wine and Food Festival International Wine Competition, 5 were from Tennessee! Of the 27 Gold medals, […]
Read More »Tsali Notch Vineyard
Categories: Best Wineries in Tennessee, Wineries
Nine Lakes Wine Country has Tennessee’s largest Muscadine vineyard in Madisonville, Tennessee. Tsali Notch Vineyard is one of the best wineries in East Tennessee. They’ve got it all… beautiful views, a thriving vineyard, and top-notch, award-winning, Muscadine wine! While you’re there, try Hiwassee, the most-awarded Tennessee wine to date. It’s a dry white Muscadine you […]
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