Wine & Beer

A gnarly old vine on Roanoke Island is the Mother Vine of our nation’s first cultivated wine grape. First recorded in 1584 by Sir Walter Raleigh’s explorers, today the vine is a trunk two feet thick with tendrils stretching on wooden arbors across an acre of land. It was the beginning of wine in America. Before the Civil War, there [...]

Mary Ann & Brian Guinn Mary Ann and Brian Guinn like to travel and have eight weeks of timeshares, but they choose to live in Greensboro because of its central location between the mountains and the beach.  In recent years their weekend excursions have been devoted to visiting North Carolina’s 120 plus wineries, most of them near the Triad.  Mary [...]