Up The Creek Winery

Up the Creek Winery sits in Possum Hollow, a Cumberland County valley in Kentucky, in a white farmhouse at the end of Norris Branch Road. Two brothers bought the 300-plus-acre former tobacco farm in 2002; the land had grown tobacco since Prohibition began in 1920, and its labels still carry an old tobacco barn. They planted vineyards in 2003 and 2004, built the winery in 2005, harvested their first grapes in 2006, and released their first commercial wines from the 2010 harvest, becoming Cumberland County's first winery. Today the small farm winery tends more than 1,200 grapevines and 700 trellised blackberry and red raspberry bushes. Its grapes include American varieties Golden Muscat, Concord, and Diamond, plus hybrids Chambourcin, Seyval Blanc, Vignoles, Marquette, and Marechal Foch. The farm is Kentucky Proud, and it supplements its own fruit with products from neighboring Kentucky growers, including organic blueberries from Brush Creek. The vineyard sits on well-drained soils left by an ancient sea, with dark shale, quartz-like rock, shellfish fossils, and limestone. The tasting room is open Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and visitors can also call to arrange a meeting.

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