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Who is JenNis Beverage Marketing?

We are a full pour creative team whose strength is providing solutions for generating organic and dynamic exposure for our partnering brands.

Our unique, specialized, branded competitions are designed to generate a tool for our participating wineries to create an organic marketing campaign for their wines!

We are Dennis and Jenni Turner.

We provide brand exposure!

Dennis is certified at WSET Level 3 and a BJCP certified Hard Cider & Mead judge. Dennis serves as President for the French Broad Vignerons.

Jenni is a Board Member of the French Broad Vignerons, and our full-time creative marketing professional focusing on our several regional and national wine competitions.

We both are long-standing members of the French Broad Vignerons and both experienced wine competition judges. Together having judged the Asheville Wine Competition, the French Broad Vignerons Regional Wine Competition, The North Carolina Mead & Cider Competition, and the American Sangria Competition, among several other regional competitions. We are WSET certified and professionally trained in wine faults.

What we do?

We organize Unique Wine Competitions! We plan, organize, market, and direct specialty focused wine and beverage competitions with the optimal goal to create organic and dynamic exposure for our participating producers! Since 2016!

Award winning wines often experience an uptick in sales due to greater brand credibility and consumer trust! External validations of quality often sway consumer perception.

Our results guarantee increased exposure and recognition for your brand. We provide social media and influencer outreach for all winning wines! Increasing brand exposure and gaining influencer recognition is a proven plan to improving sales!  

We evaluate and score wines. We will, with the assistance of highly qualified and experienced wine industry professionals evaluate and score your wine on a 100 point scale.

We are Manufacturers Sales Representatives for exceptional viticulture tools, winemaking supplies, and tasting room retail brands. We are positioned to deliver products for Vineyard, Winemaking, and Tasting Room success! Our territory is North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

We build communities! We build specialized communities. Join our Facebook groups……..Drink Local North Carolina……and Drink Local South Carolina!

We Invest in artisan craft beverage focused small businesses and startups.

We Scout for Crowdfunding opportunities of artisan beverage focused small businesses and startups seeking to raise capital.

Do you want your brand to grow, build your community, and bring your community of customers together in a meaningful and positive way?

Always remember that your marketing strategy should include consistency in actions, a clear path to your success, and authenticity in who you are as a brand.

We can assist you?

Let’s connect! Text or Call @ 864.357.1435

JBM Wine Competitions

Reviewing Award-Winning Wines of 2024 – Riesling from Rayson!

We are taking a look at several Best-in-Show, Double Gold and Gold Medal award winning wines of 2024.

First up is a great summertime wine! An off-dry non-vintage riesling from the Yadkin Valley AVA in North Carolina.

RIESLING from Rayson Winery & Vineyards in Mocksville, North Carolina.

Best-in-Show and Double Gold Medal award winner in the 2024 Great White – A National White Wine Competition!

What did the judges say?

Beautiful color, with a pronounced and developed nose, bright intense flavor notes bursting of citrus and delicate white flowers, pleasant lingering finish, well-made very enjoyable wine, a great riesling!

Indeed! We concur!

We recently delivered the Best-in-Show trophy to owner and winemaker J W Ray! He was very humbled and greatly excited to show off his trophy to the 200-person wine club party gathered that day!

We gladly opened another bottle for this review. This NV Riesling continues to develop complexity as it ages gracefully in the bottle.

Riesling is a varietal that is truly terroir driven. It is often made sweet to balance its higher acidity. However in our humble opinion, the best rieslings are fermented out dryer!

Last year up in the Finger Lakes, we totally fell in love with dry rieslings. Let it be known, this off-dry Riesling from Rayson totally raises the bar in the Southeast! The lingering notes of citrus titillate the palate, with just a touch of sweetness to balance its acidity. Bravo!

This best-in-show award-winning Riesling from Rayson Winery & Vineyards should continue to age gracefully in the bottle for the next 5 to 8 years! Cheers!

The following data is copied from the Rayson website.

Harvested: Various days in August and September 2022 and 2023
 
Bottled: February 7, 2024
 
Released On: February 7, 2024

Number of Bottles Produced: 6,050
 
Cooperage: Stainless Steel

ABV: 12.1%

Price per bottle: $27.00

New Varietals Recently Approved by TTB

The following have been approved by the TTB as grape type variety names and may be used as a type designation on American wine labels.

Macabeo – Vitis Vinifera, White varietal originating from Spain

Parellada – Vitis Vinifera, White varietal originating from Spain

Frappato – Vitis Vinifera, Red varietal originating from Italy.

Colorino – A synonym for Lambrusco.

Trincadeira – A synonym for Tinta Amarela – Vitis Vinifera- Originating from Portugal, often used in Port wine.

Grenache Gris – Pinkish grey mutation of the red Grenache varietal. It tends to appear in the vineyard only among other Grenache vines and is often field blended.

Garnacha Roja – Synonym for Grenache Gris.

Garanoir – Vitis Vinifera, red varietal originating from Switzerland.

Greco Bianco – White grape most likely originating from Italy.

Clarion – Vitis Hybrid, cold hardy white developed at University of Minnesota.

Catarratto – Vitis Vinifera, White grape originating from Italy.

Gouais BlancVitis Vinifera, white grape originating from Central Europe.

Recent TTB Announcements

April 26, 2025 – Established the Yucaipa Valley AVA located in San Bernardino County in California.

May 15, 2024 – Established the Upper Cumberland AVA in Middle Tennessee.

May 10, 2024 – TTB sent a reminder about transferring “Shiners” – the common name for unlabeled bottles of wine.

The reminder stated that while technically not allowed by regulation, reiterated the current policy of “looking the other way” for shiners being transferred between bonded wineries.

Palmetto Wine Comp 2024

We are proud to announce our Best-in-Show winner as judged in the 2024 Palmetto Wine Competition.

The competition was blind judged in Landrum at Bodega Noir.

Our judges hold advanced certifications from American Wine Society and Wine Spirits Education Trust. One judge is a twenty plus year veteran commercial winemaker while another judge is a current vineyard manager in North Carolina! This judging panel brought years of industry experience. They have previously judged such comps as Wines of the South, North Carolina Wine Competition, Georgia Trustees Wine Comp, The National Estate-Grown Wine Competition, and too many more to mention!

Our 2024 Best-in-Show Double-Gold award-winning wine is a true South Carolina classic! Produced of fruit 100% grown in South Carolina, this wine an average score of 93 points!

Our 2024 Best-in-Show is the Blueberry Wine from Island Winery in Hilton Head Island!

Hillick & Hobbs New Riesling Release

The Finger Lakes estate winery of esteemed winemaker Paul Hobbs, just announced a very interesting new wine release.

Hillick and Hobbs, grows some 20 plus acres of riesling on the East bank of Seneca Lake. Past releases have been only vintage dry rieslings. On a visit last June, we tasted their 2019, 2020, and 2021 estate-grown dry rieslings.

So a recent email announcement caught my attention. Hillick & Hobbs releases the 2022 North Ravine Estate Dry Riesling.

The inaugural release is selected from a single block on the northwestern most section of the estate. We would imagine this block, is closest to the famed “Banana Belt” region on eastern Seneca Lake.

The email further stated, The fruit from this block is unique and differentiated itself from their classic Estate Dry Riesling during blending trials, thus warranting its own bottling.

Hillick and Hobbs is hosting a release party on April 26th from 2-4pm. Hopefully soon thereafter, the realease will be available to purchase on their website.

Cheers to Dry Riesling!

Bud Break Festival in Mt. Airy May 4th

Mt. Airy is known as the town of which fictional Mayberry is based. However, the town also sits in one the fastest growing American Viticulture Area’s along the East Coast of the U.S.A.

The 2024 Budbreak Festival returns this Saturday , May 4th. The festival, which coincides with North Carolina Wine Month, celebrates the early Spring awakening of the area’s vines.

As many as twelve Yadkin Valley wineries are participating, including Golden Road Vineyards in State Road. Last year Golden Roads won Best-in-Show for their 2022 Traminette in the inaugural Great White – A White Wine Competition.

At least three area breweries are participating, including Williamson Mead and Brew, who recently won a double gold medal for their Hilde Mead in the 2024 North Carolina Mead & Cider Competition.

The event is destined to be a success with such award-winning wines and meads being served. Tickets $25 in advance and $30 at the gate. Festival hours are Noon to Five p.m.

Country Star Tim Elliott is scheduled to preform and several local restaurants and food trucks will be available for dining options.

The Budbreak Festival is a fundraiser for the local Rotary Chapter, and proceeds support various non-profit organizations. Michael Barnes, president of the local Rotary Chapter stated, “a good party…for a good reason!”

Tickets can be purchased at Budbreak Festival Mt. Airy

Prayer for Protection of Yield

Heavenly Father, as cold descends upon our vineyards, we commit to your protection all vineyards across the South,

We implore of you, one who rules the seasons, please intercede on our behalf, so that the vines and any buds breaking remain safe from the harsh elements,

and will so find in your favor that the vines may be protected from the blustering winds and freezing temperatures and continue to flourish with new growth,

and so supply their stewards a bountiful harvest yield of fruit to produce the special blessing of wine that gladdens the heart of so many lives.

In your name we pray, Amen.

Pinot Noir Riesling from Michigan’s Brys Estate

A gift from our friends Dathan and Jennifer, aka Triangle Around Town or the Jathan! We are enjoying a bottle of 2021 Pinot Noir Riesling from Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery in Traverse City, Michigan. A rosé blend of 73% Pinot Noir and 27% Riesling! Wow….Just look at that color!! 🍇

The nose is tart red fruit and the palate is very expressive of raspberry, strawberry, cherry, and cranberry. 🍓🍇 Really light and easy drinking…but not sweet. Just a touch of sweetness that is nicely balanced by the medium plus acidity.

Our first ever Michigan wine, just an excellent Rosè to help us transition into our warm weather lighter wines! ☀️

Here’s to Michigan wine, we are truly enjoying and totally look forward to visiting some day soon! 🛩️

Miramonte Winery Wins The 2024 Wine Natty!

The 2024 Wine Natty was judged February 17th in Asheville, North Carolina.

The National Champion Best-in-Show award-winning wine is the 2019 Estate Syrah from Miramonte Winery in Temecula, California.

2019 Estate Syrah

This 2019 Estate Grown and Produced Syrah was awarded 93 points and double gold medals!

WSET Diploma Certified Head Judge John Zimmerman stated, “A well done wine!”

Judge Morgan Clendenen noted, “well made,” and judge Sharon Kelly scored it at 94 points.

American Wine Society Certified and mega-experienced Head Judge Bill Fish commented, “well balanced and well made!”

AWS Judges

A few highlights for the 2019 Estate Syrah; ABV: 14% Blend: 95% Syrah 5% Petit Sirah AVA: Temecula Valley Retail Price: $75.00

What our Judges Smelled and Tasted; Aromas of blueberry, plum, and spice. Well balanced on the palate with layered notes of blueberry, plum, raspberry, cherry, vanilla, spice, and oak!

Second year in a row a California wine had won The Wine Natty!

Congratulations to Miramonte Winery! 🥇🥇

TTB Expands Red Hills Lake AVA

The TTB formally expanded the Red Hills Lake County AVA in California.

The AVA was expanded by 679 acres and is effective as of March 6th, 2024.

The release stated, “the established AVA and the expansion area are both located in Lake County, California, and both are also within the larger Clear Lake and North Coast AVAs.”

The Red Hills Lake County AVA was originally established in 2004.

The petition to expand was submitted on behalf of local vineyard owners. The additional 679 acres includes three separately owned parcels.

Of interest, the description of the Red Hills Lake County AVA stated its climate is more influenced by Clear Lake than by the Pacific Ocean.

AVA’s around Clear Lake