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Arrington Vineyards & Winery
 Arrington Vineyards & Winery tasting lodge. |
Music fans and wine lovers helped celebrate the grand opening of the new Arrington Vineyards & Winery off Cox Road on Saturday afternoon.
Many of the guests crowded into the site’s rustic tasting lodge to sample the 12 different types of wines made there. Others spread across the vineyard’s hillsides to eat picnic lunches and to listen to live music by Pat McLaughlin.
Arrington Vineyards is owned by Kix Brooks of the duo Brooks & Dunn and Brentwood wine enthusiasts Fred Mindermann and Kip Summers. According to the Nashville Business Journal, Brooks invested $2 million dollars in the business and owns 50 percent of the winery. His two partners own 25 percent each.
Brooks was on hand to welcome and visit with guests at the grand opening but did not perform.
The winery sits on a hill on Patton Road which exits east off Cox Road just south of the Highway 840 overpass. Two large wine barrels more than 100 years old sit at the bottom of the hill to mark the entrance to Arrington Vineyards.
To date, about 25 acres of grapes have been planted on the 75-acre farm with the oldest vines being about three years old, according to a vineyard worker.
The worker said the vineyard is not expected to harvest any grapes this year because of the severe Easter freeze. However, the winery is set up to buy grapes from other Tennessee vineyards when needed.
Initially the winery is expected to produce about 5,000 cases of wine a year.
Arrington Vineyards, which is the first commercial winery in Williamson County, is open Monday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
The walls of the tasting lodge are lined with bottles from the 12 different kinds of wine made on site. Visitors may try a complimentary half ounce sample of each of the wines.
They can also buy bottles of wine to take home or to sample on the covered deck outside the tasting room or at tables overlooking the rolling hills. Currently the winery does not ship or distribute the wines off-site.
The Arrington Vineyards wines include Cabernet, Syrah, Merlot, Red Fox Red, Chardonnay, Riesling, Sweet Liberty (sweet Muscat), Gewuztraminer, Viognier, Raspberry, Desert Rose and Stags’ White.
The winery will offer musical entertainment soon. Seating will be on the lawn and picnics and children will be welcome. No pets, glass containers or outside alcohol will be allowed.