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| GlenMarine Winery's First Year! March 2005-March 2006 |
Opening Day
Our tasting room opened March 5, 2005 offering five red wines and four white. Opening day was the kick off
for our outstanding new adventure. We had tremendous support from family and friends. Over 350 loyal
friends participated in opening festivities and purchased our wines.
Highlights
Accomplishments through the year included hosting birthday parties, bridal showers, individual wine
experiences with tastings of our wines and tours of our vineyard and winery. Visits from special groups were
highlights. The various points of origin of our guests were amazing. Guests came from: California, Texas,
Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, Scotland, Japan and even Puerto Rico.
Our Wine
Our wine is fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks to develop unique individual verital fruit flavors. We
do not use oak barrels or oak chips as a means to flavor or age our wines. Only six months into the year we
had sold out of five of our nine original wines. Carolina Springtime was added in early summer and lasted
only a short time before it too was sold out. Our quantities were small coming only from our 2 acre vineyard.
Blackberry, Strawberry and Cabernet Sauvignon were bottled late in the year. Strawberry and Blackberry
wines are made totally from locally grown fruits. No grape wines or artificial flavors are blended into our
strawberry dessert wine and our off dry Blackberry wine.
Haw River Wine Trail
Organizing the Haw River Wine Trail was a significant accomplishment and an economic boost for each of
the five participating wineries. There is strength in numbers. The sharing of ideas and advertising costs
plus steering visitors to our fellow trail members increased the exposer for all of us.
With the Burlington Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Alamance County Cooperative Extension as
sponsors the Haw River Wine Trail applied for a Golden Leaf Foundation Grant. Approval was received for
the education segment of our proposal and for research to apply for distinguishing this area along the Haw
River as an American Venticultural Area (AVA).
Numerous sessions are planned for the coming year to help anyone interested in learning more about
growing wine grapes and other aspects of the wine industry. Topics, times, dates and location will be
announced soon.
