ITALIAN VINEYARDS IN YADKIN COUNTY ONE OF THREE US VINEYARDS THAT PRODUCES VERMENTINO WINE

VERMENTINO WINE HAS WON TWO PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS THIS YEAR

Nestled between the Blue Ridge and the Brushy Mountains in the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina, the Raffaldini Vineyards of Swan Creek is known as the Chianti Vineyards of the Carolinas, bringing a touch of Europe to the Tar Heel State. It is one of three, of the 4600 wineries in the United States that produces a varietal Vermentino wine—the most popular white wine native to Sardinia. It has won two prestigious awards already this year.

The Raffaldini Vineyards is a family owned vineyard whose wine vintage dates back to 1348 in the Northern Province of Lombardy, Italy. It was only after an exhaustive search for land in the United States that the family decided to locate the winery in the Swan Creek area, where it would benefit from the mountain’s deposits of rich minerals and the breezy climate, that would produce grapes that stood up to the handcrafting of fine Italian wines.

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