Botanist & Barrel crafts real southern ciders, fruited sours, and wines. Focused on spontaneous, wild cultures and light-handed winemaking they embrace old world methods with modern sensibilities. Join this informative morning seminar hosted by Lyndon Smith and Amie Fields with Botanist & Barrel on crafting homemade wines using ingredients from our inspiring mountain landscapes. Drink in the unique landscape and offerings of our beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain home…literally!
Venue Sponsor: Botanist & Barrel
Botanist & Barrel crafts real southern ciders, fruited sours, and wines. Focused on spontaneous, wild cultures and light-handed winemaking they embrace old world methods with modern sensibilities. Join this informative morning seminar hosted by Lyndon Smith and Amie Fields with Botanist & Barrel on crafting homemade wines using ingredients from our inspiring mountain landscapes. Drink in the unique landscape and offerings of our beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain home…literally!
Venue Sponsor: Botanist & Barrel
After a lifelong career in wine, sourcing, importing and distributing, Amie realized that the winemakers have all the fun. She joined her husband and sister- in- law with the dream to build something special from the ground up and in 2017 Botanist and Barrel was born. Amie is one of a handful of people awarded the Pommelier certification from the USACM’s Certified cider program. She is a certified level 1 sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers and was chosen as a judge at the Great Lakes International Wine and Perry competition. She loves focusing on minimal intervention
×Farming and winemaking runs in Lyndon’s blood. He grew up foraging for family meals and drinks at his Grandparents farm. Lyndon continues to learn about creative ways to use forgotten, foraged and ugly fruits to make beautiful adult beverages. In 2019 he launched NC’s first festival dedicated to wild and spontaneous food and beverages called “Funk Down on the Farm”. He also founded the non-profit “American Fruit Wine Producers Association” in 2017 and is a certified cider professional through USACM. Lyndon loves supporting local farms, using native fruits
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