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By opening the doors to Childress Vineyards in 2004,
NASCAR team owner Richard Childress fulfilled a longtime dream that grew from the days when he first began racing in California and visited wineries with friends.
This is the Winery Store Room. They also have a couple of clubs you can join for, what thought, was quite reasonable; around $200 to $250. These clubs come with many benefits, especially if you’re into wines.
What began as camaraderie and good times soon became an engaging passion for world-class wines and then the vision to build a world-class winery.
The Banquet Room used for weddings mostly.
After looking at options in California and New York, Richard chose farmland in Lexington, NC located less than five miles from his RCR Racing operations.
This is the Bristol Room. I was pleasantly surprised at the menu prices. I imagined them to be much more expensive than they were.
The location situated Childress Vineyards as the gateway to the Yadkin Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA), North Carolina’s first federally designated region for grape growing.
Walkway at the beginning of our Winery Tour. The gazebo below may be used or rented for special occasions.
Childress Vineyards is one of the most prominent wineries in the state’s re-emerging wine industry that has grown from 21 to more than 100 wineries since the year 2000.
This is another Bristol venue for big events. As our tour guide said, everyplace in the winery may be rented except for Richard Childress’ office. Below is the first step in the processing of wines; the removal of stems and exterior skin coating.
The building we were in originally was over 35,000 square feet in size. We are now in the basement of that building. Wine is store in these aluminum vats for as long as six weeks. Temperatures down here are really chilly. This enhances the fermentation process. Below the holding tanks are being cleaned out and eventually sterilized prior to new wines enter them.
The aluminum containers store most of the wines they produce. The better and more expensive wines are stores in the wooden kegs. Each of these wooden kegs cost about one-thousand dollars each and may be used only once.
Above is Mark. He runs and controls almost every process in the wine making business at Childress.
This room is for their top of the line wines. Each of these kegs is being exposed to the ground which, once again, enhances the wine fermentation process. Below is the Childress Library of specialty wines. This room is always locked and very few enter as well.
One acre of vineyards can produce four-thousand bottles of wine.
For more information on Childress Vineyards
click on the following link:Childress Vineyards