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Junius Lindsay Vineyard Part of New Wine Trail!
9/17/2009- From an article by Seth Stratton in The Dispatch, the Davidson County newspaper:
"Three area vineyards and wine retailers have combined to develop the Southern Gateway Wine Trail in Davidson County. Michael Zimmerman from Junius Lindsay Vineyards in Arcadia, Sid Proctor from Weathervane Winery and Kathleen Watson from Childress Vineyards were at the LTA meeting Thursday.
The three have partnered to offer a wine trail throughout the county marking and mapping different places visitors can have a glass of red or white. Hoping to add to the typical wine trail experience, the three have also partnered with the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Lexington to offer a prize of a free night’s stay and wine package valued at $600 once a month for those visitors who visit each of the five spots on the trail.
Proctor said they will begin marketing the trail at the Dixie Classic Fair in Winston-Salem early next month and also plan to run some television spots. The partners have set a budget of $6,900 to start and will be producing about 15,000 color flyers. Proctor said the trail will also market other county attractions to encourage people to spend a night in the area."
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Winston-Salem Journal - June 2009
-- Michael Hastings | Journal Food Editor
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Wine: 2007 Junius Lindsay Vineyard Second Leaf Roussanne
Review: Junius Lindsay Vineyard in Davidson County has turned out a delightfully distinctive white wine from roussanne, a grape of the Rhone region that is typically blended with marsanne in its native France. Chief among its distinctions is its enticing aroma of flowers, herbs, apples and a hint of citrus. It also has a refreshing acidity with flavors of melon. It's very well-balanced, relatively low in alcohol at 11.2 percent, and has a long, herbal finish. Serve with white fish or seafood.
Available at Wine Merchants Gourmet and at the winery.
Winston-Salem Journal - April 2008
-- Michael Hastings | Journal Food Editor
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Review: Viognier has been touted as a possible signature white grape for North Carolina, and wine lovers can certainly get an idea why from the 2006 Junius Lindsay Viognier from Zimmerman Vineyards in Davidson County (now called Junius Lindsay Vineyard to avoid confusion with Zimmerman Vineyards in Trinity). Its floral and fruity aroma of ripe peach and pear continues in the taste. Though light to medium in body, this wine has a subtle richness to it. With its excellent balance and long, dry finish, this is a wine to watch.
Available at Wine Merchants Gourmet in Winston-Salem.
Arcadia winery releases new wines - June 2007
By WILLIAM KEESLER | The Dispatch
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ARCADIA | A small vineyard in northern Davidson County has released two new wines.
Zimmerman Vineyards followed last year's release of its first wine, its Junius Lindsay 2005 Viognier, with the June 2 release of a new Barrel Select Junius Lindsay 2006 Viognier.
Simultaneously, Zimmerman added a new dessert wine, Junius Lindsay 2006 Estelle.
The Junius Lindsay brand is named for vineyard owner Michael Zimmerman's grandfather, Junius Lindsay Zimmerman, who started the farm off what is now Doctor Zimmerman Road where the younger Zimmerman planted nine acres of vines.
The Estelle dessert wine, also made from viognier grapes, is named for Michael Zimmerman's grandmother and Junius Lindsay Zimmerman's wife, Beatrice Estelle Evans Zimmerman.
"Isn't that sweet?" Zimmerman said.
Both wines were made by Childress Vineyards winemaker Mark Friszolowski and bottled at the Childress winery in Lexington. Both labels feature the same image of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, as the 2005 Viognier. The image was taken from a 1596 painting by Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio.
Zimmerman describes the 2006 Viognier as "more complex," "crisper" and "more balanced" than the 2005 wine - reflecting a second year of maturity for vines planted in 2004 as well as the conditions of a different growing season.
"It was a good wine year," he said.
The 2006 dessert wine is "like a late-harvest wine," with higher sugar levels, he said. The wine complements desserts as well as cheese, according to the Zimmerman Vineyards Web site, www.zimmermanvineyards.com.
"Dessert wines are growing very rapidly in popularity," Zimmerman said.
Friszolowski said the 2006 Viognier is "really outstanding" and the Estelle is "a different style" from the three dessert wines that Childress Vineyards makes for its own label.
"Michael's doing it the right way - he's focusing on quality," Friszolowski said. "He's a very good grower."
The 2006 Viognier offers "tropical and floral aromas with hints of peach and apricot" and "finishes crisp with notes of wildflowers and herbs," according to its back label. The new Estelle is a "delicate" wine that "marries the sweetness of peach and apricot with the tropical aromas of wildflowers and herbs," according to its back label.
After producing just 30 12-bottle cases of the 2005 Viognier, Zimmerman made more of the new wines. There are 259 cases of the 2006 Viognier and 78 cases of the 2006 Estelle.
The Viognier retails at $14.99 for a 750-ml bottle and the Estelle at $23.99 for a 375-ml bottle.
The wines are available at Wine Merchants Gourmet in Winston-Salem and at the vineyard, which has a new retail license and where part of a farm outbuilding has been turned into a refrigerated warehouse. The Zevely House Restaurant in Winston-Salem serves the wines.
"Unfortunately, the viognier will have to last two years," Zimmerman said. The freeze over Easter weekend killed almost all of his 2007 viognier crop and much of his 2007 syrah.
However, his 2006 syrah is in French oak barrels at Childress Vineyards and will be bottled in the fall and released probably early next year. Zimmerman said he may make two different wines from it.
In the fields, some newer syrah, petit syrah and rousanne vines fared better during the freeze and are thriving. Their fruit will produce 2007 vintage wines, but the volumes cannot yet be estimated, Zimmerman said.