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North Carolina Wine TV Review:
The 2004 Michael’s blend is a great example of balance in a red North Carolina Wine. The nose is complex with flavors of fruit and earth. In the mouth the wine is a little too light in body and lacks some fruit in the front of the mouth. This wine is made to go with food and can be far better than our rating if paired with the right meal.
Rating: 
according to the North Carolina Wine Ratings Scale
Price: $17
Availability: Directly from the winery and select wine shops.
About Hanover Park Vineyard 2004 Michael’s Blend:
Our 2004 blend of our best reds produced a well-balanced wine with a wonderful nose, rich full flavors, and a lingering finish. The 2004, made from Cabernet Franc and Merlot was aged almost 4 years in oak and bottled in September 2008. Our Michael’s Blend has been very popular for us at the winery.
About Hanover Park Vineyard:
A month-long honeymoon in the south of France in 1996 changed the lives of these former art teachers. Michael and Amy Helton returned home with a love of old world wine and the countryside, and by December, Hanover Park Vineyard in the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina began. Two artists and teachers took a chance, worked very hard, and turned an old farm into a thriving vineyard.
They began planting vineyards in the spring of 1997 and 1998. The farmhouse, built in 1897, was transformed into the tasting room and winery in 1999 for the first harvest producing 375 cases with the tasting room opening July of 2000.
Michael’s education in Viticulture and Enology has been independent and self-directed. As a former educator and researcher, he understood how to learn from universities, seminars, interviews, and websites involved with wine and grapes. In the summer of 2002, they returned to the south of France with appointments with winemakers in order to further understand the older French methods and blends.
Retiring from teaching in 2004 has provided Amy a new career filled with adventures and new experiences running the tasting room, planning all events, as well as developing a marketing and branding program.
Interview with Amy Helton, Owner of Hanover Park Vineyards
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