We decided that on this North Carolina Wine Food Friday that this complex yet slight spicy wine needed a dish with salt, sweet, and a little dairy to help bring out the true flavors of this wine. Check out today’s episode to lean how this North Carolina Mourvedre goes with a BBQ Pork Quesadilla!

North Carolina Wine TV Review:
Mourvedre is a grape that is not widely grown in North Carolina’s vineyards, but very popular in France. The Hanover Park 2005 Mourvedre has an added level of spice and complexity from the Syrah blended with it. On the nose it is fruity and smokey. With pepper and complex flavors layered in the mouth. Watch today’s episode to get the full description of this wine.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

according to the North Carolina Wine Ratings Scale

Price: $17

Availability: Directly from the winery and select wine shops.

About Hanover Park Vineyard 2005 Mourvedre:
Our love of wines from the Rhone Valley of France has influenced this earthy red wine blended with less than 20% Syrah and aged in oak almost 3 years.

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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