“Cold” Grapes are Hot Topic
“When I’m in a vineyard with my hands on the vines, I feel like I’m communicating with nature,” says Chuck Blethen, proprietor of Jewel…
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Henderson County in a Bottle
The cider craze sweeping the nation has hit WNC, ahem, hard. Over the past year, four local hard cideries have emerged on — nay,…
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Da Beers
There’s something brewing this month in downtown Tryon. The town will host the first ever Tryon Beer Fest on November 10, an event its…
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Mumbo Gumbo: First Brew
On April 30th I quaffed my first (legally) commercially produced beer at the Southern Appalachian Brewery in Hendersonville. And it was sweet. Birthing Henderson…
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Vine Line: The Cider House
Most of us know the story of Johnny Appleseed. The eccentric woodsman introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and…
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Vine Line: Loire and Order
Over 60 wineries abound in North Carolina, but our little neck of the woods has a special distinction: we have several French Wine importers…
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Vine Line: Freedom of Expressions
My wife and I have called Hendersonville home since 1972. For our first wedding anniversary in our new hometown we planned to seek out…
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Vine Line: Refined Tastes
When my wife and I were enjoying the salad years of our marriage, we fantasized about opening a business that would satisfy both of…
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Beach Bum Berry…and the Secrets of the Tiki
Jeff Berry is perched on a barstool sipping Belgian beer and professing rather amusingly his ignorance of the world of hops and yeast. Berry…
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