We Really Did Taste Nine Bottles of Wine

Day 54 - Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Carrollwoods RV Campground and Winery, Tabor City, NC

Every day that we take a walk around the park, we pass by the sign for the Grapefull Sisters Winery and promise ourselves that we will visit before we leave for our next destination.  So with only a couple of days left here, we go late in the afternoon to taste the wine. 

A sign advertising Wine Floats greets us as we come in the door and Herb jokes to Amy, one of the Grapefull Sisters, that it must be illegal to use wine to make a float.  We know about Coke Floats and Rootbeer Floats, but never thought about using wine.  

Amy laughes about his comment and says she is not doing anything illegal.  

The sign also says there will be live music on their porch on Saturday from 2-5 pm, and we are disappointed to miss it since we plan to leave on Thursday.

For the tasting we pay $12 each and Amy lines up nine bottles of muscadine wine, explaining a bit about the muscadine grape.  The vineyard next to the tasting room is planted in muscadine vines, which are native to North Carolina and the southeastern United States.  The grapes are available from late August through early October, so we are here at the right time.

Amy gives Herb and me a sheet to make notes about each wine, and pours a small amount in our glasses.  The other Grapefull Sister, Sheila, takes a photo of us as we write down our comments.  Amy tells us what each wine is best paired with, and when she serves one that should be "sipped as if it were a hot cup of coffee," I don't follow her directions, so she has me 'taste/siiiiiip' that one again.  Amy is fun to visit with and makes us laugh a lot as she demonstrates the tasting.

Another group of people comes in and Sheila seats them at the counter around the corner from us. While Amy walks over to serve them, Herb and I get a chance to look around the store to see the gifts they have for sale.

While there are so many interesting items for sale, and we enjoy looking at each one, we do finally make our selections.  We prefer a dry wine, but all these wines are either sweet, semi-sweet, and semi-dry, so we settle for Waccamaw Red, which is a traditional southern red muscadine, and named for the 150 mile long river in North Carolina and South Carolina.  I think it is really sweet.

No, we didn't buy the sign about unattended children; we don't have any puppies to give away.

As we wave goodbye, we are pleased to see a book for daily Bible readings on a chair by the door.  A religious sculpture sits nearby.