Botanist and Barrel

Botanist and Barrel We're family bound by love for good food, here to shake up the South. Frustrated by wines that didn’t reflect our South, we made our own. Farm. Fruit. Ferment.
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We dreamed of a winery as inclusive and vibrant as a potluck, celebrating local fruits and shared moments. Dry Fruit Wines, Farmhouse Ciders & Spirituous Barrels. Botanist and Barrel and the B&B tasting room are beautifully situated on Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm just north of Hillsborough, NC. We craft a variety of barrel aged and stainless steel dry wines, ciders and sours, using only the finest southeastern grown fruits, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, peaches and apples. We believe in light-handed winemaking using centuries old European techniques, allowing the fruits, yeast and barrels we have carefully selected to be vivid and expressive. Visitors can spend the day picking blueberries (season runs July-August), purchase and taste our wines, local craft beers and prepared foods, all in a scenic farm setting.

09/08/2026

Winemaking is Sexy right?

Fall plans. Handled.**SEPT 19: PIZZA, PAGES & MUSIC** Pizza. The Traveling Scroll | Mobile Bookstore NC. Wood fired pizz...
09/06/2026

Fall plans. Handled.

**SEPT 19: PIZZA, PAGES & MUSIC**
Pizza. The Traveling Scroll | Mobile Bookstore NC. Wood fired pizza, a bookstore on wheels, Leia Sadiku live, and bottles open on the farm.

**OCT 10: OYSTERS & A SHOW**
theoystergirlnc + Waterman's Choice are bringing oysters they grew in Topsail Sound. They’ll roast them. They’ll shuck them. Leia Sadiku will play. We’ll pour the wine.

**NOV 7: DUMPLINGS & A SHOW**
Chirba Chirba Dumpling rolls up with the big yellow dumpling truck. Leia Sadiku plays. We pour.

Three Saturdays at the farm. 4 to 7 pm.

Pizza. Books. Oysters. Dumplings. Music. Wine.

Really not sure what else you need.

Put them on the calendar.

It’s Saturday and we are ready for you 🫶Cedar Grove 12-7pAsheville 12-9p Protip👉We’ve got Floral Print on draft, while i...
09/05/2026

It’s Saturday and we are ready for you 🫶
Cedar Grove 12-7p
Asheville 12-9p

Protip👉We’ve got Floral Print on draft, while it lasts, at both spots. It’s a Traminette and Muscadine Cider and it’s sooo goooood!

Come taste through St. Rains with Pam, one of the people behind this Asheville based craft cannabis beverage company. pa...
09/04/2026

Come taste through St. Rains with Pam, one of the people behind this Asheville based craft cannabis beverage company.

pairs full spectrum cannabis with organic fruit juices and terpenes to make lightly carbonated drinks with no added sugar. This is a chance to taste through the lineup, learn what goes into the drinks, and ask Pam all the questions you’ve been wondering about THC beverages.

**Friday, September 5**
**5:30 to 7:30 pm**
**Botanist & Barrel Asheville**

Tasting is $10, or complimentary with the purchase of a four pack, mix n match available.

No reservation needed. Just come taste.

09/03/2026

Nothing to see here. Just a tractor carrying around next year’s good time Vidal Blanc.

A whole damn bin of grassy, citrusy, green melon goodness headed toward the cellar.

Meanwhile, its older sibling is already cold at the bar.

Come drink some Vidal while we make more Vidal.

Circle of life, baby. 🍇🥂

Asheville Bar open by 1pm daily.
Cedar Grove Winery open at noon Thu-Sunday.

You drink our wine. You drink our cider. You come hang out at our bars.And you’re still not in our club? WE NEED TO TAL...
09/01/2026

You drink our wine. You drink our cider. You come hang out at our bars.

And you’re still not in our club? WE NEED TO TALK.

And now there are five different clubs, so the only choice to make it which one to pick.

Last day to sign up for the Fall Release Boxes is tomorrow, so get going.

https://www.botanistandbarrel.com/club

08/30/2026

We can’t wait to pour for you today.
Cedar Grove open 12-6p.
Asheville open 12-8p.

Bring your people.

Jim’s taking over Friday night tasting this week, and he’s digging into some of the last call vintages from DéFi Wines. ...
08/28/2026

Jim’s taking over Friday night tasting this week, and he’s digging into some of the last call vintages from DéFi Wines. 🍷

Some of these bottles are down to the final few. Once they’re gone, that vintage is gone, and we move on.

Come see what Jim pulls. Take home something you won’t get another shot at.

Friday, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Asheville Tasting Bar

Don’t sleep on this one.

What more do you want from us?Four new bottles. All very different. All very us. All drinking ridiculously well right no...
08/27/2026

What more do you want from us?

Four new bottles. All very different. All very us. All drinking ridiculously well right now.

We made a Strawberry Lavender Cider with local strawberries and lavender leaves that somehow turns wildly tropical. We made what we’re confidently calling the most serious Muscadine wine we’ve ever made, laser sharp, mineral and foxy AF. We made an Apricot Cider that smells like Gewürztraminer and tastes like biting into a tart ripe apricot. We made a bottle conditioned Riesling from Yadkin Valley fruit with green apple, flowers, citrus, ginger and fine bubbles.

And because we’d actually like you to drink these things instead of just liking a picture of them, they’re 10% off through Sunday, August 30 with code AUGUSTRELEASES in both tasting rooms and online.

Tiny lots. New releases. 10% off. At this point, we’ve done our part. 😂 Now you do yours.
https://vinoshipper.com/shop/botanist_barrel

08/23/2026

Here’s winemaking, wildly oversimplified.

Grow grapes. Pick grapes. Press grapes. Make wine.

Of course, somewhere between those steps are about a thousand decisions, a mild crisis or two, a questionable amount of lifting, and an entire year of farming that gets reduced to a few seconds of video.

But basically, yeah. Grapes go in. Juice comes out.

Let’s make wine 🍇

Address

105 Persimmon Hill Lane
Cedar Grove, NC
27231

Opening Hours

Thursday 1pm - 6pm
Friday 1pm - 7pm
Saturday 12pm - 7pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

Telephone

+19196447777

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