Wellborn Winery

Wine: Winery: Ambiance: Jul 05, 2018

Favorite Wine: Seyval Blanc/Traminette 'Woodsy White' blend

The winery's grand opening day for our visit. Crowded small, yet adequate 'downstairs' tasting room with covered seating available outside overlooking the woodland vineyard. Their estate grapes are supplemented by a larger vineyard up-the-road in Tigerville, SC. Most of the grape and fruit wines tend to be semi-dry or sweet to accommodate anticipated local tastes. To be admired is their venture into locally grown American hybrid grapes; as, Lenoir (Jacquez or Black Spanish), Chambourcin, Chardonel, Seyval Blanc, Traminette, Leon Millot, Marechal Foch plus Vitis rotundifolia 'Tara', 'Carlos' and 'Farrer'. A few of the small batch fruit blend offerings are infused with 'oak staves'. To be noted were two off-dry wines that caught us surprisingly intrigued with their first offerings, ~ Seyval Blanc/Traminette 'Woodsy White' without the typical astringent Traminette taste and a unique South Carolina Lenoir 'Deep Purple'. Go out of your way to find the Beninati's (Wellborn English translation) new attraction near Hwy 11's Cherokee Trail.