Monday, July 3, 2017

North Carolina - Lumberton - Stephens Vineyard and Winery

Stephens Vineyard and Winery - (July 2017) I decided to try this winery for the benefit of my wife; there are no dry wines.


When we entered the tasting room and there were already three ladies there, who had just started their tasting so we joined them. The wines available for tasting were all fruit wines. I tried the apple, which was tart but dry, the peach, with good aroma, which I felt would be better slightly chilled, the pear, which reminded me that it may have been fermented with the skins, the raspberry and the blackberry; I preferred the apple. My wife tried the pomegranate, scuppernogg, strawberry, Ms Mary’s blush, a blend of muscadines, and the Tobacco Road red; none of them appealed to her.


I went to look for the apple wine and noticed a cabernet franc ice wine so I asked the tasting host if these were true ice wines, because of their style. She went into a room and brought out some of the cabernet franc wine for us to try. She asked us to be quiet about it because a group of people had just entered the tasting room and she was not sure if she was allowed to do it. It was not sweet and lacked traditional cabernet franc flavor. I decided to purchase the Riesling ice wine and an apple wine.

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