We wrote a similar post for the 2021 harvest.
…so yeah a little late but without further ado!
Show us your grapes North Carolina! #NCWine
2022 brought a very bountiful harvest to our local vineyards and this fruit is fermenting well!
Excited to taste the fine wine to be vinified from this amazing vintage!
Cheers! 🍷🍷
We are so excited to announce this national competition!
The Wine Natty! The National Estate Grown Wine Competition.
All wines entered must be American estate-grown and vinified. The label must support this requirement.
Enter the inaugural Wine Natty here ➡️ The Wine Natty
JenNis Beverage Marketing has organized wine competitions since 2016.
Our focus is on expanding exposure of artisan wines. We are WSET 2 certified and long serving members of the French Broad Vignerons.
We are likewise experience wine competition judges, having previously twice judged the Asheville Wine Competition and the American Sangria Challenge, along with a few other local competitions.
We select from a pool of judges with vast wine competition judging experience and varied industry certifications. Our judges hold such certifications and distinctions as Certified Specialist in Wine, WSET level 3, American Wine Society Certified Judge, and even Certified Sommelier.
Judging is scheduled for February 11-12th in Asheville, North Carolina.
Results will be published the following week.
Why you ask?
JenNis Beverage Marketing is moving registration for all of our wine competitions to http://www.enofileonline.com
Enofile Online provides for a streamlined online platform for managing wine competitions.
Many of the most prestigious wine competitions are listed on the platform. Now, so are competitions by JenNis Beverage Marketing!
Wineries register for free and upload all the info for their wines. The platform then allows for a quick simple entry process of any competition listed on the site.
The platform further allows for us to print several reports on the wines entered and allows us to quickly upload scores and results.
No more will we need to create our own entry form! Payment of entry fees are easily processed online through Stripe!
Our first competition in 2023 is our inaugural National Estate Wine Competition – The Wine Natty. This competition only accepts estate-grown and vinified wines. We are thrilled to announce this competition is listed and live on Enofile Online! 🥂
Our next competition of 2023 will be the 2nd Annual American Sangria Challenge!
We will continue our Palmetto Wine Competition and our North Carolina Mead-Cider Competition.
We couldn’t be anymore excited to further develop our brand and additional wine competitions. I’m 2023 we will host several competitions.
Cheers!
This event was a part of the Taste of North Carolina series sponsorship by the North Carolina Winegrowers Association.
A Taste of Asheville featured a sampling of the wines of Western North Carolina wineries paired with small bites from local restaurants, caterers, and food trucks.
Participating wineries were Parker-Binns Vineyards, Mountain Brook Vineyards, Overmountain Vineyards, Biltmore Winery, St. Paul’s Vineyard, Stone Ash Vineyards, Pleb Urban Winery, Botanist and Barrell Asheville, Marked Tree Vineyard, South Williams Vineyard, My Sweet Love Vineyard, Silver Fork Winery, Shadowline Vineyards, Point Lookout Vineyards, and Ferncrest Winery.
Yes! 15 local craft wine producers! 🍷🍷
Paired with small bites from The Rural Seed, Ivory Road Café, Toasted Cuban, The Lobster Trap, Braised & Confit Catering, Relish Food Truck, Urban Graze, Geraldine’s Bakery, Tequio Foods, Ob-Skewered, Jargon Restaurant, RAD Kitchen, Asheville Chocolates, Cielo Catering, Bears Smokehouse, and AB Tech Culinary.
More than three hundred tickets were sold, and many local wine influencers were in attendance.
We saw Ryan and Terri Watts of Van in Black, Sharon Logan Kelly of Sharon Sips, Lindsay Johnson, judge at the NCMCF, Briana Burns of Burns Through Wine and the NC Winegrowers Association. It was awesome seeing so many influential locals in attendance!
We took as many pictures as we could considering we were constantly balancing a plate and a glass of wine! 🤣
So this past weekend we were visiting the Raleigh area. Medals and Best-in-Show presentation at Starrlight Mead in Pittsboro.
We also took some time to hangout with our friends Dathan and Jennifer of Triangle Around Town and Screw It Wine!
Our friends invited us to a special wine tasting! At a convenience store! Well it’s a C-Store & Wine Shop combination! 🤣 North Raleigh’s Finest!
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The wine tasting? Not so bad! We tasted five Spanish and Portuguese wines! First an Albariño, a rosé, a Cab Sauv / Merlot blend, Rioja, and Borba.
I swear this is so cool.. just love the unpretentious unassuming nature of the entire concept!
We next made our way over to Local 919 – Raleigh’s Craft Beer and Fine Wine destination!
Our friends Dathan and Jennifer are partners in this local endeavor. It’s a really cool vibe. Great place to chill with friends.
The wine tasting included four wines. A Grüner Veltliner from Washington, a Sauvignon Blanc from Pasa Robles, a California Zinfandel and a Red Blend from South Africa.
This shop is a great space! There’s a huge bar and a good size lounge. Plenty of space to hang out with friends or loved ones and enjoy a great evening!
A few more pics from our trip!
The inaugural Celebration of Chambourcin- A Wine Competition was judged November 12th in Asheville, North Carolina.
The Celebration of Chambourcin seeks to gain greater exposure for our favorite French-American hybrid.
The inaugural competition received entries from North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia.
The competition benefited from an amazing group of judges with varied wine certifications.
Our head judges Bill Fish and Alan Staton bring years of experience having past judged competitions such as Wines of The South, Asheville Wine and Food Festival, and the Palmetto Wine Competition. Bill and Alan are both American Wine Society certified judges and members of the French Broad Vignerons.
Judge Ben Labe is WSET 2 certified, employed with Biltmore Winery, and a member of the French Broad Vignerons, and previously judged the Asheville Wine Competition. Judge Lindsay Johnston is WSET 2 certified and a current level 3 student. She previously worked with Mountain Brook Vineyards in Tryon, North Carolina and previously judged the Palmetto Wine Competition.
Tom and Nancy Traver are WSET level 1 certified and well experienced wine competition judges. Tom and Nancy are our Southeastern regional wine experts with years of experience enjoying, critiquing, and judging wines from Virginia to Texas.
Our final two judges were Pam Rotz and Kimberly Craig. Pam is an experienced wine, mead, and cider judge having worked with JenNis Beverage Marketing. Kimberly is a WSET 2 student and a tasting room associate at Kefi Vineyards in Monroe, North Carolina.
Our panel of judges raved about our winning wine! Comments such as, very characteristic, very well balanced, pleasant finish, outstanding quality, great job, gold medal quality, great flavor profile.
The star of the show, the bell of the ball, the crown of the celebration, this years Best in Show Chambourcin comes from Virginia.
Winning Best in Show in the inaugural Celebration of Chambourcin is the 2018 estate grown Chambourcin from Mountain Run Winery in Culpepper, Virginia.
The 2018 Chambourcin from Mountain Run is 85% Chambourcin and 15% Petit Verdot. Fermented dry this double gold winning wine is aged 12 months in French oak barrels.
We had three additional gold medal winning wines in the inaugural Celebration of Chambourcin.
Estate grown Pea Ridge Red from Parker-Binns Vineyard in the Tryon Foothills of North Carolina earned a solid gold medal score. The Pea Ridge Red is 75% Chambourcin and 25% blended Cab Franc and Cab Sauv.
Fifty-Third Winery and Vineyard of Louisa, Virginia earned gold medal for the 2021 Estate grown Chambourcin. This 100% Chambourcin aged 9 months on American oak.
Our final gold medal awarded to Grapes and Ladders Vineyards and Winery of Ellijay, Georgia for the Coosa Rosé. An off-dry rosé of estate produced Chambourcin.
Eight entries earned a silver medal including the Rustic Red from Wellborn Winery in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, also the estate grown Chambourcin from Baker Buffalo Creek Vineyard in Lawndale, North Carolina, and a blended rosé Dusty’s Road from Enoree River Winery in Newberry, South Carolina.
Eight additional bronze medals were awarded.
Here’s to a successful inaugural Celebration of Chambourcin. We look forward to delivering medals to our participating wineries. Keep an eye out for those medal presentations coming in January of 2023.
We remain very sincerely thankful and forever grateful for those who have sponsored our competitions this year.
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We are members of the French Broad Vignerons and pool our judges from the organizations members. The French Broad Vignerons of Western North Carolina (FBV) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities for grape growing, wine making, evaluating, and enjoying wines in western North Carolina.
The 2nd annual North Carolina Mead-Cider-Fruit Wine Competition was recently judged in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
The competition was sponsored by Beer Law Center in Raleigh and by Van in Black tour company.
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Starrlight Mead in Pittsboro stole the show with their Honeyed Spiced Apple Mead winning Best in Show and Double Gold Medals.
Red Rocket #14, a cranberry apple cider from Twisted Vine Winery in Lenoir, was awarded Best Cider in Show and a gold medal.
Keepers Cut Meadery in Marion earn gold for their Blueberry Fruit Wine.
Silver Medals were awarded to Twisted Vine Winery for the Galactic Gold and Cosmic Sunrise ciders, Flat Rock Cider Company in Hendersonville for the Semi-Tart Blackberry, Stardust Cellars in Wilksboro for Viking Blood, Keepers Cut Meadery for Blackberry Mead, and Wehrloom Honey for the PinAppeno Mead.
Bronze Medals were awarded to Disslvr of Asheville for their cider The Form of Thoughts. Flat Rock Cider Company for the Semi-Dry Apple, Wehrloom Honey in Robbinsville for Cherry Sour mead, Stardust Cellars for Ancestral Mead, Starrlight Mead for Blueberry Mead, and Twisted Vine Winery for Project Blue, Area 61, and Strange Encounter ciders.
We toast our 2022 medal winners and encourage your patronage of our North Carolina Mead and Cider producers.
Starrlight Mead in the Chatham Beverage District.
Twisted Vine Winery in Lenoir.
Keepers Cut Meadery in Marion.
Flat Rock Cider Company in Hendersonville.
Stardust Cellars in Wilksboro.
Wehrloom Honey in Robbinsville.
How about a Winery Escapades blog! Just a recap of our weekend adventures!
🍷Our new tradition is to start our weekend early! Like Thursday evening kind of early!
Mountain Brook Vineyards in Tryon, North Carolina is just 30 minutes from us – and they stay open late! Open until 7pm on Thursday evening! It’s normally just a few brave spirits and us simply enjoying a bottle of wine and the great vineyard and mountain view!
Friday we ventured to Forest City, North Carolina. We dined at The Copper Penny Grill and walked down to the Twisted Pair Taproom to listen to our friend Jamie and his band Wiregrass!
Saturday we met our amazing friends Will and Pam up in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Gathering for laughs and wine at Cats Paw Winery. An urban winery with a feline passion!
🥩🍹So for Saturday dinner we found Flipside in downtown Rock Hill. Highly recommend!
Sunday was our fun day at our “home winery” – Parker-Binns Vineyard in the #TryonFoothills
Parker-Binns is the ultimate relaxation destination. Live music, Good food, and great wine. The winery draws a large group of regulars and new friends are made every week. This family owned and operated vineyard does it all on the 40 acre estate. They grow it, ferment it, bottle it, and serve it up with a fun party vibe!
Oh….and the sunsets are stunningly beautiful!
We live for these weekends. We hope you did something amazing! Here’s to great times 🥂
Why not!!
We do love visiting our favorite wine bars!
We drink so much local wine, we cherish the opportunity to taste and learn of the many great wines around the world!
Wine Competitions and Marketing! 