Vineyard Tours & Wine Tastings

Visit our Hendersonville location for a tour of the winery and a wine tasting on our beautiful vineyard in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Let our expert Tasting Room Associates guide you through a tasting and tour that will educate and entertain you and your guests in our renovated farmhouse with a spectacular view of our Sugarloaf Vineyard. After your tasting, enjoy your favorite wine by the glass or by the bottle on our veranda overlooking our vineyards.

$10 to taste a flight of 7 wines and you get to keep your engraved Burntshirt wine glass!

HENDERSONVILLE
TASTING TIMES

Sun – Thurs 12pm – 6pm
Fri – Sat 12pm – 7pm

VINTNER’S TABLE FOOD TRUCK

On Saturdays and Sundays from April to November, our Vintner’s Table Food Truck is available with sandwiches, salads, cheese boards, and other wine-infused nibbles. Check out their selection HERE.

PET FRIENDLY

Pets are allowed in the Tasting Room, we ask that they please be kept on a leash.

RESERVATIONS + GROUPS

Please call 828.685.2402 or contact us for further information. We ask that groups of 6 or more make a reservation for a tasting. We love working with Bachelorette and Birthday Parties!

DAILY TOURS 2PM

**10 people max for winery tours due to COVID restrictions**

Winery Tours are Free to the Public

Open Year Round, Closed on Christmas Day

Private Tours Available with Reservations

Special Offers

Create memories of your special day at Burntshirt Vineyards in Hendersonville.

Private Tour with the Winemaker

Stroll through the vineyards (general public are restricted from this area)
Private tour with the Winemaker through the winery
Two cheese boards and a bottle of wine to enjoy on the terrace
Reservations are required

$175 for two people

Not available during harvest season (Sept-Dec).

Lunch and Tasting on the Terrace

6 people or more

Boxed lunch (lunch order needs to be placed 24 hours in advance)
Private tasting of seven wines (glass is kept as souvenir)
Private tour of Winery
Reservations are required

$31 per person

Bachelorette Party

Private tasting of seven wines with assigned tasting room associate
Private tour of the winery
Reservations are required

$20 per person

Proposal on the Terrace

Greeted upon arrival, and escorted to table on terrace
Two cheese boards and a bottle of wine to enjoy on the terrace
Services coordinated by the Event Manager
Reservations are required

$120

Proposal in the Vineyards

Exclusive access to the vineyards to propose
Two cheese boards and a bottle of wine to enjoy on the terrace
Services coordinated by the Event Manager
Reservations are required

$150

Proposal in the Meadows

Greeted, and escorted to requested location in the meadows
Two cheese boards and a bottle of wine to enjoy in the meadows
Services coordinated by the Event Manager
Reservations are required

$150

Wine Tasting Tips

Wine tasting can be broken down into four basic steps: see, swirl, sniff, and sip.

See

Pour the wine into the glass and hold it against a white background such as a napkin. Color tells you a lot about the wine.
For whites, if the color is darker, it may mean the wine was aged in oak barrels as is the case with our Harvest Moon Chardonnay. If it is pale yellow green, like our Grüner Veltliner, unoaked Chardonnay, Vidal Blanc, and Riesling, it was fermented in stainless steel tanks.
For reds, if it is rich in color like our Altitude 3400, it can indicate a younger wine. Red wines tend to lose color as they age.
Different grape varieties have different colors. Color is a perceptive issue so don’t worry if you don’t see eye to eye with someone else.

Swirl

Sniff

Smell is one of the most important steps in the process of wine tasting. We humans can identify more than 2000 scents and wine has hundreds of its own!
After you swirl the wine, you should smell it three times. The third smell will give you more information than the first two.
You don’t have to use pretentious words to describe the nose of a wine. It is what you perceive. Our wine descriptions will give you a start. If you sense something different, let us know your interpretation.
After time, you can memorize the way a Grüner Veltliner, Riesling, Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Franc grape smells.

Sip

For many, tasting wine is taking a sip and swallowing immediately. Proper tasting is done with your taste buds. When tasting wine, take a sip and leave it in your mouth for 3-5 seconds. This brings the wine to the temperature of your body and creates more smells sending info to your olfactory sense.
We perceive four tastes: salty, sweet, bitter and sour. Wine is not salty so we’re down to three.
Sweetness occurs when wine has some residual sugar added after fermentation. If there’s any sweetness in wine, you’ll get it right away because we sense sweet at the tip of the tongue.
Bitterness usually indicates a high alcohol and tannin content. It’s tasted at the back of the tongue. Tannins are a sensation that frequently exist in red wines and white wines aged in oak. When the wines are too young, the tannins are high and block the fruit.
Sourness indicates the amount of acidity in the wine. Acidity is sensed at the sides of the tongue, the cheek area and the back of the throat. White wines and some lighter red wines contain a higher degree of acidity than robust red wines.
Fruit and varietal characteristics of the grapes will be more smells, than tastes. Pay attention as the overall taste and balance of the components linger in your mouth. How long does the balance last? This is called the aftertaste and is usually the sign of a high-quality wine.

Wine Tastings are also available at our Chimney Rock location.

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