Tours & Tastings

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

Let our expert Tasting Room staff guide you through a tasting 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 for a set tasting of 7 one-ounce pours.

$15 for a flight of your choice of 5 two-ounce pours.

HENDERSONVILLE
TASTING TIMES

Sunday – Thursday 12pm – 5pm
Friday – Saturday 12pm – 6pm

*Please be aware that guided tastings require approximately 45 minutes, depending on the size of your group

ROTATING LOCAL FOOD TRUCKS

On Weekends from April to November, you can find some of the best area-wide food trucks parked outside our Tasting room. Check out our events calendar for more information!

PET FRIENDLY

Burntshirt Vineyards is pet-friendly outdoors for well-behaved, leashed dogs.

*In accordance with NC Health Code, pets are not allowed on Winery Tours or inside the Tasting Room.

RESERVATIONS + GROUPS

Please call 828.685.2402 or contact us for further information if you would like to schedule a private tasting or tour. Reservations are required for groups of six or more. We love working with Bachelorette and Birthday Parties!

DAILY TOURS 2PM

**Strictly first-come, first-served; no reservations**

Winery tours are free to the public

Open year-round, closed on Christmas Day

Private tours available by reservation

Make Some Memories

Create memories of your special day at Burntshirt Vineyards in Hendersonville. We require that any reservations be made at least 24 hours in advance.

Vineyard 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

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

$41 per person

Bachelorette Party

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

$30 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, like our Grüner Veltliner, 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 become more muted in 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 five tastes: salty, sweet, bitter, sour, & umami. All five can be found in wine, depending on the variety of grape and the climate/soil in which it is grown.
Sweetness occurs when wine has some residual sugar added after fermentation.
Bitterness usually indicates a high tannin content. Tannins are a sensation that frequently exist in red wines and white wines aged in oak. If a white is high in tannin, it will often have a bitter or astringent quality.
Sourness indicates the amount of acidity in the wine. White wines tend to have a higher degree of acidity than red wines, although there are exceptions.
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. A long finish is usually a sign of a high-quality wine.

Wine Tastings are also available at our Chimney Rock location.

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