593 CHAMPAGNE, WHITE, RED & SWEETIES
The Barn at Blackberry Farm is a Relais & Chateaux hotel and restaurant in Townsend, Tennessee, USA. The population of Townsend is some 700 inhabitants. Nature lovers will be smitten by Townsend.
Travel + Leisure magazine included Townsend in their Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park highlighting its blend of small-town charm and gateway to some of the park’s best hiking trails and scenic spots.
Food and wine lovers are equally spoilt for choice.
The Barn at Blackberry Farm is a precious jewel in the wine world. There is already a brilliant 280-page beverage list. Within that is an offering of 593 half-bottles like nothing else on planet earth.
Their foresight means wine lovers can imbibe more than usual because, instead of repetitive glasses of the same wine, we drink fewer glasses in order to experience more choice and diversity. Less is more!!
The Barn at Blackberry Farm’s entire 280-page Beverage Menu can be viewed at https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/blackberryfarm/farm/pdfs/The-Barn-Beverage-List-2.13.26.pdf
Executive Chef Cassidee Dabney
Andy Chabot, Senior Vice President of Food & Beverage
GO HALF-BOTTLES GO!!
It is often observed a magnum takes twice as long (perhaps more) to age than a standard 750 ml bottle. For that reason, the magnum is considered more ideal. Akin to that same reasoning, half-bottles are denigrated because they age twice as quickly.
Myself, I love half-bottles because they are a dream come true. I don’t have the time nor patience to wait twice as long for a wine to evolve.
Do we really want to drink a frisky 3-, even 5-year young Barbaresco. Or a top Chablis villages that is all pent-up and taut at 2, 3 years? Never mind a Premier or Grand Cru that is still wound up in its primary phase at 5 years old! Half-bottles hasten the evolution of a wine, affording an earlier window to enjoy their full potential. Half-bottles should be celebrated twice as eagerly for that reason!!
