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Rocky Top Wine Trail—discovering fruit wine and Muscadine in Eastern Tennessee

Sugarland Cellars in downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Thomas Wilmer

Jonathan Ball with the Rocky Top Wine Trailin Eastern Tennessee talks about the trail that includes wineries in Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg

The wine region is known for its alpine varieties, and the Rocky Top wineries are best known for their fruit wines that include blackberry, peaches, cherry, and spiced cherry desert wines, as well as hard cider, Pinot Noir, and Muscadine

Ball also talks about the Friends of the Smokies non-profit, Gatlinburg, Tennessee--post fire, and the annual Gatlinburg Wine Fest.

Stainless steel tanks at Sugarlands Cellars in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Credit Thomas Wilmer
Stainless steel tanks at Sugarlands Cellars in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Oak Barrels at Sugarland Cellars, downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Credit Thomas Wilmer
Oak Barrels at Sugarland Cellars, downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee
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Credit Rocky Top Wine Trail
Rocky Top Wine Trail logo

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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