Tasting Room OPEN Fri-Sat, 12-6pm. Open since July 4, 2018!!
Welcome to Wellborn Winery in lovely upstate South Carolina!
Our family name "Beninati" means "Wellborn" in English. Each bottle is indeed "well-born"!
See us on WSPA-TV 7
Newscaster Dan Bickford featured us on a recent local visit to area wineries and breweries.
About Us
The Vineyard
From Vine to Wine
From Vine to Wine
Our small unpretentious winery consists of the South Vineyard, the Terrace Vineyard, and the Carriage House Vineyard. We also source grapes, berries, and peaches from nearby growers.
From Vine to Wine
From Vine to Wine
From Vine to Wine
We opened July 4, 2018. We are what the French call "garagistes", small-scale craft vintners. We make wine because we love doing so in the old-school fashion of our Italian ancestors.
Our Wines
From Vine to Wine
Our Wines
Our wines follow our "terroir", the nature of our upstate land in the Blue Ridge Foothills of western South Carolina. We grow select French-American hybrid and native American grapes.
Lily White - Palmetto State Best Estate Wine 2022!
Lily White - Best Estate Wine in 2022 Palmetto State Wine Competition!
The 2022 Palmetto Wine Competition was judged May 7th at The Belmont Inn in historic Abbeville, South Carolina. The judges selected our Lily White as the Best Estate-Grown South Carolina wine in the competition! Named for our vineyard dog Lily - who appears of the label - the wine is made from our estate-grown Chardonel, a French-American hybrid of the Chardonnay white grape.
"We combined grapes from 2019 and 2020 harvests, fermented separately then blended the musts, "says co-owner and vintner Tony Beninati . "Both batches fermented in stainless steel tanks with only brief exposure to oak staves in the 2019 vintage. The younger un-oaked 2020 wine in the blend offers crisp citric and apple notes while the lightly-oaked 2019 element contributes to the round finish of pear. It has been a top-selling off-dry white, consumed both at room temperature as well as chilled."
Wellborn Winery Wins Gold in Regional Wine Competition
"Rustic Red" Chambourcin won Gold in Wines of the South at UT-Knoxville!
Travelers Rest, SC—October 31, 2018— The University of Tennessee at Knoxville announced that Wellborn Winery of Travelers Rest has won one gold and two silver medals in the 2018 Wines of the South Regional Wine Competition. Two other Wellborn Wines, Deep Purple Lenoir and Red Clay Rosé won silver medals from among 315 entries.
Wines of the South is an annual regional wine competition that began in 2001 to promote and celebrate the great tastes of Southern vintages. Wineries in 14 southern states from Texas to West Virginia and all the way down to Florida are invited to submit wines for the competition.
Wellborn offers over a dozen wines that include French-American reds, whites, and rosés, as well as muscadines, and fruit wines. Over 70% of the grapes and fruits are grown on site or on other SC farms.
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Tray of Six 3/4oz samples $8
Flight of Four 3 oz glasses $15
Any Glass of Wine $7
Wines $16-$22 per 750ml bottle