Cloer Family Vineyards

Cloer Family Vineyards is a family-owned winery in Apex, North Carolina, run by Tam and Pam Cloer and their daughters. The Cloers previously operated Cloer Nursery, a landscaping business in Apex, and Tam studied horticulture at North Carolina State University. He learned winemaking as a young man from an elderly neighbor and later inherited the neighbor's equipment. He began planting grapes on the family's 18-acre farm in 1995, first trying vinifera and French hybrid varieties. After years of struggling with mold, mildew, and pests in the humid climate, he replanted the five-acre vineyard with muscadines, the native grape discovered in North Carolina's Outer Banks, which thrived. The winery opened in June 2010 in a red barn with a green tin roof. It is the only family-owned farm in the immediate Triangle area that grows its own grapes and produces wine on-site. The lineup includes muscadine-based Noble and Carlos, a Sauvignon Blanc called Veranda, Riesling, and a proprietary Merlot called Matador. Visitors can taste all five wines with a self-guided flight, sit indoors or outdoors on the veranda overlooking the pasture and vineyards, walk the five acres of vines, and visit the sheep and horses.

Written by Ava from public sources. Not written or reviewed by the winery.