NASCAR Wines

Hey race fans. So, a driver, named after a beer has taken the checkered flag in the land of wine! Kyle Busch sprinted for two strong laps to take his 11th wine this season.

So what did we drink during the race? In our efforts to explore more wine clubs, I asked my Pit Crew, where we should join next. Our wine clubs expert, sent us down the path of California wine this month - perfect timing for the Sonoma Race. We paid a visit to Field Stone Winery and Vineyard. I first discovere their wines through a wine of the month club selection, and now had the opportunity to buy from them direct. The winery is small, underground and fascinating. That being said their wines had the unique approach of a boutique label. I recommend their 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon which proved to be my race drink of choice.

CHARDONNAYS AND CHEVROLETSChildress brings wine to NASCAR with N.C.-based vineyard

By DAVID NEWTON

Senior Writer

LEXINGTON, N.C. — Richard Childress leans back in his chair and looks out the office window at his empire.

But he is not looking at his Nextel Cup shop for Kevin Harvick, who drives the No. 29 car. Or the No. 30 shop of Jeff Burton. Or the No. 07 shop of Dave Blaney.

He is looking at grapes.

Acre after acre of grapes.

Childress doesn’t have to go to Sonoma, Calif., where NASCAR’s top series races this weekend, to visit some of the top vineyards in the country.

He walks out of his back door into the 65-acre farm that looks like a picture from the California countryside, with a 35,000-square-foot stone and stucco winery as the centerpiece.

It’s hardly the scene one would imagine on these rolling hills of red clay where stock-car racing was born of moonshiners and good ol’ boys.

“Hopefully, we can convert some of the good ol’ boys that like their beer into trying wine,” Childress said.

NASCAR and wine seem to go together like George Strait and the Metropolitan Opera House. But here in this sparsely populated corner of Davidson County, a few miles from the race shop where Childress won six Cup championships with the late Dale Earnhardt, chardonnays and Chevrolets are blended into one.

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