The flavor profile is layered with apple and pineapple.
The initial flavor is sweet yet the finish is refreshingly tart.
5.2% ABV
On the label: Get ready for the most unique cider you will ever try! Strange Encounter! The culmination of crisp hard apple cider with pineapple flavor creating a sweet and tart delight that is sure to be out of this world!
Silver Medal winner in the 2021 North Carolina Mead-Cider-Fruit Wine Competition.
Available at the winery on draft or to go in 22oz bottles.
Complex notes of apple, vanilla, caramel, and coconut on the nose.
Semi-dry with moderate mouthfeel and balanced tannins and acidity.
Flavors of crisp apple, vanilla, and toasted coconut very evident on the front palate fading to a layered finish with hints of oak, caramel apple, and coconut. 🍎
Crisp, complex, layered, and smooth across the palate.
ABV 6.5%
$6 a can (12oz)
Get your cans quickly, with a limited run, these won’t last long.
Harvest coming in grand for North Carolina wineries!
Show us that beautiful fruit!
Parker-Binns Vineyard and Winery starts this show with Savannah harvesting the Petit Manseng. Her husband Lance, assist Justin with the winemaking.
Petit Manseng
Linville Falls Winery makes a cameo with some beautiful Seyval Blanc!
Seyval Blanc
Locklear Vineyard and Winery mechanically harvested a bountiful yield of Muscadine.
Muscadine
Marked Tree Vineyard flaunted some huge, beautiful clusters of Chardonel!
Chardonel
Surry Community College program NC Viticulture and Enology showed off some gorgeous Traminette!
Traminette
Laurel Gray Vineyards enjoyed a beautiful sky while harvesting their equally beautiful Chardonnay!
Chardonnay
Rogue Vineyards celebrated their first ever harvest by gathering over 500 pounds of Catawba! These beauts are headed to Plēb Urban Winery in Asheville.
Catawba
Lu Mil Vineyard has 70+ acres of Muscadine under vine. This years Scuppernong grapes are really big, beautiful, and juicy!
Scuppernong
We swing back around to Parker-Binns in awe of these beautiful clusters of Cabernet Franc!
Cabernet Franc
JOLO Winery and Vineyards shouted out about the Chambourcin! 📣
Chambourcin
Shadow Springs Vineyards showed off some big juicy Chambourcin fruit!
Chambourcin
Kefi Vineyards and Winery crushed the Aglianico!
Greek varietal Aglianico
Jones von Drehle Vineyards and Winery stole the show with Tempranillo!
Tempranillo
Marked Tree Vineyard rocked the mountain night with a great harvest of Lemberger!
Lemberger
Raffaldini Vineyards and Winery closes out our harvest show with the amazing Sagrantino!
Sagrantino
All this beautiful fruit is brought to you by #NCWine.
From great fruit come great wine, and 2021 looks to be a spectacular North Carolina harvest!
Cheers to all the hard work our local vineyard managers, owners, helpers, and winemakers put in to cultivate, harvest, and ferment this beautiful fruit into award-winning #NCWine! 🍷🍷
We recently stopped by CityScape Winery to check on the construction progress of their new 10,000+ sq. ft. tasting room and production facility.
With an expected finish date in December, 2021, it’s very exciting to see the building really coming along.
I took the first two pictures below on our recent visit.
Side ViewView of the Front
Co-owner and winemaker Josh Jones sent me two additional pictures. Josh, also an accomplished wedding photographer, takes some great shots.
View from the Vineyard View of the Back!
From Josh’s latest pictures, looks like the building is in the dry! The roof has been raised!
Cityscape Winery has posted several recent updates on Facebook!
Check out this cool post of the drawing showing the new soon to be installed 16’ fermentation tanks!
Another shot shared from the vineyard gives a glimpse of just majestic the new building will stand over the Cityscape Vineyards.
One the most awesome shots shared on Cityscape Winery’s social media, was this aerial view highlighting the open-air courtyard/atrium.
It seems the grand new building has found favor from above as graced by this beautiful rainbow!
The building is nearing completion and we’re bursting with anticipation! How exciting for the local wine industry! we’ll keep you updated on the progress plus an upcoming grand opening celebration! Cheers to you, Cityscape Winery!
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release September 3, 2021
American Sangria Challenge Wine Competition
Jasper Winery Wins Best-in-Show in American Sangria Challenge
Tryon, North Carolina – The inaugural American Sangria Challenge Wine Competition announces nineteen medal winning sangria entries. The competition was organized by JenNis Beverage Marketing, a Carolina based group focused on marketing the craft beverage industry.
The goal of the American Sangria Challenge is to increase awareness of it’s participating commercially licensed producers. JenNis Beverage Marketing co-owner Dennis Turner stated, “We focus on promoting the craft beverages enjoyed by customers of smaller family-owned producers.”
JW Sangria from Jasper Winery in Des Moines, Iowa, won Best-in-Show and double gold medals by out-scoring twenty other entrants from six different states. Three of the six judges marked the JW Sangria a perfect score in flavor. Judges comments on the Best-in-Show winning sangria included, great nose, fruit really shines, excellent flavor with prominent fruit, crisp and refreshing, great balance, and outstanding!
Jasper Winery Sangria
Additional top winners were the double gold medal winning Raspea Sangria from Old Rock Quarry Winery in Enoree, South Carolina. The Kan-gria from Parker-Binns Vineyard and Winery in Tryon, North Carolina and Wildberry Blast Sangria from Olney Winery in Olney, Maryland both won gold medals. The competition also awarded five silver medals and ten bronze medals.
A panel of six highly qualified industry focused judges evaluated the entries by blind tasting. “We are very pleased with the overall execution of the event, the quality and quantity of sangria wines entered, and the extremely qualified panel of judges for our inaugural American Sangria Challenge” – stated JenNis Beverage Marketing co-owner Jenni Turner.
The event was sponsored by JenNis Beverage Marketing, Western North Carolina based custom chauffeured wine and beer tour company Van in Black, North Carolina beverage attorney Beer Law Group, South Carolina beverage attorney Bristow Beverage Law, the VinoWine App, and wine blog WineryEscapades.Com.
Best in Show – Double Gold– JW Sangria– Jasper Winery –
Silver Medal– Raspberry Peach – Olney Winery / Summer in a Bottle – Locklear Winery / Cantina Sangria – LesCombes Winery / Lime in da Coconut- Old Rock Quarry Winery / Melonberry Blast – Old Rock Quarry Winery
Bronze Medal- Pina Colada – Olney Winery / Citrus Blast – Olney Winery / Blue Raspberry – Olney Winery / Cotton Candy – Olney Winery / Crabapple Zinger – Old Rock Quarry Winery / Summer Dreaming – Old Rock Quarry Winery / Tropical Nights – Old Rock Quarry Winery / Pineapple in a Pear Tree – Old Rock Quarry / No Drama Llama – Sweet Acres Farm Winery
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For more information on the event or press inquiries, contact:
Dennis Turner Mobile: 864.357.1435 E-Mail: dennis.turner.sr@gmail.com
Lullaby is fermented of Pink Catawba juice sourced from Upstate New York.
Color of rust orange.
Nose of Welches grape juice, watermelon jolly rancher, orange slice candy, and fruit punch.
Sweet on the palate, light body, with medium acidity
Flavor profile of watermelon, fruit punch, cranberry, orange marmalade, and a short tart and somewhat foxy finish.
11% ABV
A solid sweet drinking wine from West Virginia.
If you enjoy sweet wines, this one will please you palate.
It’s a porch pounder perfect for hot summer days!
JenNis Beverage Marketing score of 86 points!
Our friends camped through Harvest Host at the Rusty Nail Winery.
Thrilled they thought enough to bring us back a bottle.
The varietal confused us, we knew it wasn’t Vinifera nor Muscadine and felt certain it was a native varietal.
However, the color through us off. We guessed rosé of Norton or a Lambrusco red and white blend.
Due to this confusion, we reached out to Owner/Winemaker Mike Crate.
Mike educated us on Pink Catawba, and we learned a “whole bunch!”
Pink Catawba fruit develops less pigment with a lighter reddish-purplish skin than regular Catawba and thereby imparting a beautiful rosé color to this wine.
Pink Catawba is a cross of Catawba and of another unknown parent grape , though many believe the other parent to be the Vinifera Semillion.
The Rusty Nail Winery is a small family farm vineyard and winery operation, just opened three years ago.
The winery sits a good 45 minutes from the next nearest neighboring winery, so yeah it’s a little out of the way. However, if you find your way traveling Interstate 81 towards Martinsburg, West Virginia, please make a little time and stop in for an enjoyable visit!
They’ve a great story to tell and very interesting wines to taste!
Moderately prominent nose of apricot, pear, banana’s foster, lemon, with white lily floral notes.
Light bodied with high acidity balancing moderately high alcohol.
Semi-sweet (demi-sec) on the tongue with flavor notes of pear, white peach, over-ripe banana, wildflower honey, and a medium finish of lemon and minerality.
Wine Competitions and Marketing! 