Autumn Creek Vineyards

The location was beautiful! The vineyards are big, with two properties to rent if you’re staying in the area. The lady working the counter told us they were frequently busy with weddings, and I could understand why. The tasting room was beautiful inside, with a wooden bar and windows overlooking the property. The restrooms were nice as well. I was not impressed with the wine; however, I typically like sweet wines. None of them were much to my liking, but I’d recommend the place based of the views.

We recently moved to the Triad area from Seattle. We have been to many tasting rooms around Washington state, Oregon, and California around the Napa Valley. We had a very pleasant tasting experience at Autumn Creek Vineyards. Of the dozen or so tasting rooms we have so far visited in NC, this was as nice as any. The young man who helped us was friendly and enthusiastic and talked knowledgeably about the wines he was serving.
Now, you have to put things in perspective here. The NC wine industry is still very young. You have young vines, young wineries, and vintners with limited experience making wines. There simply is not generations of experience with local grapes in the same way that there is in Napa or other older wine regions. Take that for whatever it’s worth.
Even in the tasting rooms of the most expensive wineries, we have never liked every wine we tasted. Some expensive wineries (Copola) we have not found any we liked, or at least nothing that was worth the price.
Back to Autumn Creek — The sweet wines were the stars of the show today. The Mayo White and the Dan red were very nice desert wines. Too sweet for me to have more than a glass but a good finish for the tasting. We brought some of those home to have on hand for when desert wines are called for. Many of the reds lacked complexity and body but most were at least very drinkable. The Diamond Girl red blend was our favorite of the reds and we did bring a couple bottles home as well.
We will be back from time to time to see what flavors future crops yield.

So, we decided to take a nice Sunday afternoon drive to Mayodan, NC and visit Autumn Creek Vineyards. Whoever built this place really made it look beautiful! The tasting room was a gorgeous building full of wood wood beams windows it had the style of a mountain cabin. We got there and there was a group of three women about to finish up their tasting and the lady running the tasting room came down and started ours. The white that they pour include Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Viognier, Riesling, and a blend of the Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, & Viognier called Diamond Girl White. In my opinion, the Chardonnay was much better than any of the other white wines.
The Reds that they pour include a Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sundown Round (a blend of Merlot, Cabernet, and a French hybrid Chambourcin), & finally another blend called Diamond Girl Red (Cab Sauv, Tannat, and Malbec). This star of the red tastings was certainly the last one, and it makes sense as I feel North Carolina wineries should concentrate on blending the Reds instead of trying to make single varietals anyway.
Will you do the tasting with some sweet wines, Bella Star A blend of Riesling and Viognier with a little peach juice thrown in, and two other wines with 5% residual sugar made from Muscadines.
All in all average wines not the best North Carolina wine I have ever drank but certainly not the worst.
As I said before the star this place though is the natural beauty the setting is perfect for a wedding and/​or the reception. It feels like your miles away from civilization, but in reality only about 40 minutes from Winston or Greensboro.

Beautiful tasting room. Nice owner. The wines not so good. The pours were cheap (Napa no longer uses the poor stops guys) I have just had better for so long a ride. I was also taken a back a little at the tip space on the charge receipt. I paid 30.00 for three people and we did not even get a glass of wine for that and the lady serving us looks to see if I gave her a tip. I so far have never seen a tip for a server on a tasting unless they are super generous. I feel the tasting should reflect the amount of wine you are trying, I would say we got about ½ a glass which is like 20.00 for a glass of wine. A little to much for the quality of what we received. Looks like a beautiful place for a wedding and I did love the room. Just wish the wines were a bit better