Best New Winery Winners (2022)

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While the method of winemaking is hundreds of years previous, these new vineyards and wineries have solely only in the near past appeared on the scene, however that hasn’t stored them from rapidly making a reputation for themselves. To discover the very best new wineries of 2022, we requested a panel of consultants to appoint their favorites, then readers casted their votes for the highest 10 winners.

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No. 10: Serial Wines Tasting Room – Paso Robles, California

The former Odd Fellows Building in downtown Paso Robles, California has been reborn as the brand new tasting lounge for Serial Wines. Decorated with unique paintings, the two,400-square-foot facility will showcase a wide range of wines from the realm’s finest growers, together with charcuterie and cheese plates for as much as 65 visitors. 

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No. 9: Bricoleur Vineyards – Windsor, California

Bricoleur (French for “one who creates using whatever materials are available with no clear plan”) Vineyards is situated on a wonderful sprawling property within the scenic Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, California. The stewards of this winery imagine in sustainable farming, fantastic wine and supporting their neighborhood. With not solely property vineyards but in addition olive groves and a honey farm, fruit orchards and Bocce courts, a go to to Bricoleur is an expertise for everybody within the household.

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No. 8: Orsi Family Vineyards – Healdsburg, California

The practices at Orsi Family Vineyards mirror a inventive method: use of useful bugs and canopy crops as an alternative of pesticides, considerate leaf removing, rigorously hand-picked and completely ripened fruit, deficit watering that forces extra profound root development, and even weed-eating sheep, rodent-eating owls, and cutworm-eating chickens. These revolutionary approaches result in extra intense flavors and excellent wine experiences at their new tasting room in Sonoma County.

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No. 7: Amaterra – Portland, Oregon

Portland’s latest vineyard encompasses a 45,000-square-foot constructing and 12-acre winery with an outside occasion garden, marriage ceremony venue, tasting room and Pacific Northwestern-inspired restaurant, only a brief drive west of downtown. Amaterra expects to provide 10,000 instances of wine a yr, primarily pinot noir and chardonnay, by means of their patent-pending gravity-fed manufacturing facility that visitors can view whereas tasting wine.

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No. 6: Sidereus Winery – Cornelius, Oregon

This Willamette Valley boutique winery is the reincarnation of A Blooming Hill Vineyard. The new homeowners plan on minimal intervention so the wines can symbolize what nature meant. Sidereus (Latin for “heavenly”) has a brand new tasting home with indoor and out of doors seating to pattern their rising assortment of wines.

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No. 5: Marked Tree Vineyard – Flat Rock, North Carolina

Located on the crest of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, Marked Tree advantages from the cool nights and ample solar to develop excellent grapes with award-winning outcomes. Their winery tasting room gives charcuterie boards, native mountain trout plates and different native delicacies to pair with their wines and mountain views. 10Best Wine Expert Ava Roxanne Stritt tells us that Marked Tree is “so new, the vineyard owners themselves almost always host you.”

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No. 4: Nenow Family Wines – Paso Robles, California

This small household vineyard options small manufacturing of Rhône-inspired wines on California’s Central Coast. After buying their first grapes in 2017, their unique tasting room opened in 2020. By 2022, they wanted more room as a result of their wine membership membership had already quadrupled. The result’s a brand new tasting room with an open-air tasting bar, snug out of doors seating and a non-public tasting room.

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No. 3: Cho Wines – Chehalem Mountains, Oregon

Owner Dave Cho’s world travels impressed upon him the common simplicity of a meal shared with strangers and a humble bottle of wine. He and his spouse Lois are growing their winery on 77 acres of farmland within the foothills overlooking Willamette Valley. Until their winery is prepared, he’s partnering with native growers to craft elegant wines to good his expertise.

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No. 2: Europa Village – Temecula, California

10Best Wine Expert Marla Cimini recommends Europa Village, “an expansive, multi-winery with a resort, which opened in 2020.” Europa combines three European locations in a single location: Spain, France and Italy. Experience an thrilling Spanish vineyard at Bolero, with its olive oil tastings and tapas bars; a style of French tranquility among the many rose gardens at C’est la Vie; or escape into the coolness of the Vienza wine cave.

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No. 1: Stone Ashe Vineyards – Hendersonville, North Carolina

Craig and Tina Little spent years trying to find American soil that might match their beloved Bordeaux area of France. They discovered it on 67 acres of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, then mated grapevine clones from France with California rootstock. Stone Ashe has now opened their 3,100-square-foot tasting room for his or her wines with a full catering kitchen that may assist marriage ceremony receptions and particular occasions.