May 2019 – Grape and Wine Appreciation Month
Categories: Awards, Nine Lakes Wine Country
Oak Ridge – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has proclaimed May as Tennessee Wine and Grape Appreciation Month, just one month after he signed a bill to ease some restrictions on wineries. Leaders in the Tennessee wine industry hope these efforts and others will continue to encourage the state’s small but growing wine industry. “The grape […]
Read More »Wine Weekend Giveaway
Categories: Special Offers, Wine Festivals
Wouldn’t you love a free weekend away? Enter our Wine Weekend Giveaway for Nine Lakes Wine Festival, May 18-19, 2018!
Read More »5 Facts About Tennessee Wine
Categories: Events, Nine Lakes Wine Country, Wine Festivals
East Tennessee is Tennessee Wine Country, with more wineries and vineyards (33 and growing!) than any other part of the state. Many of them are near the Great Smoky Mountains, making a great destination for your next vacation! Many types of grapes grow well in Tennessee, especially native varietals such as America’s wild grape, the […]
Read More »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 »Nine Lakes Wines are superior at Wines of the South!
Categories: Awards, Nine Lakes Wine Country
For the second year in a row, Nine Lakes Wine Country in East Tennessee has taken top honors at the Wines of the South Regional Wine Competition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Winery at Seven Springs Farm in Maynardville won the Best of Tennessee Fruit / William O. Beach Award, for its Pink […]
Read More »Two Greats: Jazz and Wine
Jazz music and Tennessee wine go together like peas and carrots, except better! Especially when the jazz is that of legendary vocalist Clarence Beeker, “King Pleasure,” born in Oakdale, Tennessee (Morgan County) in 1922. In the 1940s he moved to New York City and worked as a bartender, where he became a fan of bebop […]
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 »Nine Lakes Wine Country Honors
Categories: Awards
Isn’t this beautiful? This is a cluster of Chambourcin grapes, grown at Cellar 53 Winery and Vineyard in Brush Creek, TN. A wine from these grapes won a gold medal at Indy International Wine Competition recently. Chambourcin 2014, Reserve Barrel No. 1, is a dry red wine crafted by the boutique winery Cellar 53 Winery in Brush Creek, Tennessee. […]
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