PLAN A VISIT
On Route 55 at Moores Corner, 9 Miles from the Pamlico County Court House traffic light in Bayboro, and just outside of Oriental NC, turn right onto Silverbrook Road.
Travel 0.3 miles and then turn right onto Morris Creek Lane. We are located about 300 yards ahead on the left. Look for our sign.
You can click on this link for Google Maps and driving directions.
NOTICE FOR GPS USERS. Some GPSs do not recognize the winery address. If you are having trouble, enter 1413 Silverbrook Rd, Oriental and look for the winery sign on that road at the corner of Morris Creek Lane.
Hours of operation:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday:
11:00AM until 6:00P.M.
Closed: Sunday through Wednesday
We look forward to greeting you in the tasting room.
ABOUT THE WINERY
Bob and Glen are cousins - both having a big interest in wine making. More than fifteen years ago, they were discussing their favorite hobby (over a glass of wine)and the idea of throwing in together and building a winery was born. There were no vines, no land, and no buildings - just an idea that maintained itself for several years, an idea that was shared by their wives, Debbie and Rolayne.
Land in Oriental was purchased in 2000 and the idea began to come into fruition. In 2003, Glen retired from his teaching career of thirty-one years and had a house and winery building built.
Prayers were said, the first 300 vines went into the ground, and the Neuse River Winery was born in 2004. Every year, more vines were added, the inside of the winery building was fleshed out to hold a processing room and a wine tasting room. Since the grape vines do not bear fruit their first few seasons, no wine was sold, but as more and more vines started to produce, limited amounts of wine could be made.
Right now, we have seven wines to offer: Norton, a dry red (aka “Cab of the Ozarks”), a dry white called Villard Blanc (reminiscent of Riesling but fuller bodied), Chardonel (a cross of Chardonnay and Seyval grapes),sweet Blueberry, off dry Blackberry, Mead (honey wine, sweet) and Dark Mead (very sweet and made from dark honey). We plan to enlarge that list as more grape vines start producing.
We hope not to be a regular winery selling only grape wine, but to be more artisanal in our approach to wine making by combining grape wine with fruit wine and/or with spices. That doesn’t mean we won’t have pure grape wine. How about cranberry infused mead or Norton mixed with Blueberry wine?
Since all of our wines are hand wrought, we can make no guarantee that the wine of this year will be identical to the wine of the next season. We make wines by the small batch - forty gallons or so at a time instead of forty thousand gallons at a time as do the “Industrial” wine makers.
When all is said and done - We hope you’ll enjoy the wine!
“He makes…wine to gladden the hearts of man.” Psalm 104:15