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North Carolina Wine TV Review:
This Carlos muscadine wine from Sanders Ridge blew us away. It is easily the best example of muscadine wine we have tried to date, and the grapes were grown in the Yadkin Valley. This North Carolina State Fair winner has an incredibly complex nose for a muscadine wine with earth and fruit perfectly balanced. In the mouth it has the perfect blend of sugar, acidity and tannins. Do whatever you can to give this a try if you are a muscadine fan.
Rating: 
according to the North Carolina Wine Ratings Scale
Price: $14
Availability: Directly from the winery
About Sanders Ridge 2007 Big Woods Red (from the winery)
A Bordeaux blend of the Cabernets – Sauvignon and Franc, Merlot, and a dab of Syrah suggests rich black cherry with light licorice and pepper and a smooth velvety finish. A great food wine.
About Sanders Ridge Winery (from the winery):
In the late 90’s, after 40 straight tobacco crops along with corn, soybeans, cattle, and timber, it was becoming ever clearer to Neil that the conventional farming of his day would not offer his 2 sons and daughter and their families – the livelihood that it had afforded him. With the realization that he was going to probably be “it” (the last Shore to farm this special place), he started researching alternative cash crops and implementing a more forward thinking farm plan which he hopes will sustain the land and all of the natural resources it supports (including his children and grand children!) for years to come…
Between 1999 and 2001, he laid the groundwork and established the vineyard for the Sanders Ridge Vineyard and Winery. (View photo diary). In December 2005, he began producing USDA certified organic vegetables, herbs, and cut flowers at the Farm at Sanders Ridge and in June of 2009 he opened the Winery and The Big Woods Restaurant – in a rustic and towering post and beam structure built from lumber and stone he harvested right off the farm.
Neil’s goal has always been to make Sanders Ridge a place where folks can laugh, relax, and experience the farm and the special places within it. He and his family invite you to visit the Winery and The Big Woods Restaurant for a taste of a simpler time and place. And, if you are so inclined, to wander…
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The best muscadine wine we have ever reviewed! From @sandersridge http://bit.ly/8WtijL Is it good enough for a perfect score?
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making me want some of this for the summer! will have to make it out there as i doubt it can be found around RDU.
We enjoy watching your reviews! But we would like to correct one thing about the wine that won the “Best Muscadine Wine Cup” for the best Muscadine Wine at the NC State Fair in 2009… It was the Cypress Bend Vineyards “Campbell” and we have the cup to prove it!!! Please come and review it!
Cheers,
Tina
Neil and Cindy are awesome! Barnhills carrys the complete line of Sanders Ridge wines.