Tennessee Homemade Wines is Gatlinburg's sweet-wine shop — the distinction matters. This is not Napa: these are dessert-style Southern wines (the blackberry, by the WSMV segment on this page, is described as the best-selling wine in Tennessee), poured in a free-ish tasting format from a family cellar that also seeds the Smoky Mountain Winery Trail. TBH and wife took five bottles home including the blackberry; the trail film buys the $10 pass that links the local winery rooms.

Watch: first looks

3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Sampling Wine in Gatlinburg - Tennessee Homemade Wines

Joshie and Stacy

Joshie and Stacy sample the sweet wines at Tennessee Homemade Wines in 2022 with friends: the peach ('off the tree'), the blackberry, and the two mixed half-and-half - the shop's dessert-wine style in one sitting.

Key takeaways
  • The style is sweet Southern dessert wine
  • Peach and blackberry are the pours to mix half-and-half
  • Free-spirited tastings - this is a social stop, not a lecture

Gatlinburg Wine Trail - Discover 5 Must-Visit Wineries & Cideries in Gatlinburg, TN 🍷🏞️

Gatlinburg Wine Trail

The Gatlinburg Wine Trail explains itself: a $10 pass worth $60, eight samples and a slushie sample at each stop, 40-plus wines, ciders and meads along the Strip - starting at Tennessee Cider Company and rolling through stops including Tennessee Homemade Wines and Old Mountain Wine Company.

Key takeaways
  • $10 pass, $60 value, eight samples plus a slushie sample per stop
  • 40-plus wines, ciders and meads across the Strip stops
  • Start anywhere; Tennessee Cider Company is the usual first stop

Wine Tasting with Tennessee Homemade Wines

WSMV 4 Nashville

WSMV's Today in Nashville segment tastes with Tennessee Homemade Wines, the Gatlinburg sweet-wine shop whose blackberry wine the segment calls the best-selling wine in Tennessee. (The served caption track for this clip is a corrupt repetition loop; it loads as watch content.)

The pours

The blackberry is the headline (Southern sweet with a serious following), the seasonal and creek-side pours the rest. A natural-wine operation — fruit-forward, made for the Southern palate — reviewed with open expectations by the bucket-list crew: the location (next to the Pancake Pantry area, on the Parkway's south end run) gets its own note for walkers. The honest review from a Smoky Mountain local weighs the room as a standing part of the Gatlinburg drinks map.

The trail idea

The Winery Trail pass strings the area's wine rooms into one $10 day — Tennessee Homemade Wines as the Gatlinburg anchor, Hillside Winery and the Mill Bridge rooms out in Sevierville. The full tour film covers the home cellar floor to bottle; the other walk-throughs give the room's scale and pace.

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3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Tennessee Homemade Wines , Blackberry

The Art Of Drinking

The Art Of Drinking reviews Tennessee Homemade Wines' blackberry from home in 2023: a very sweet, thick dessert wine - 'like smashing a bucket of blackberries in your face' - from a winery the reviewer stocks up on every Gatlinburg trip and has shipped north.

Key takeaways
  • The blackberry is the flagship - very sweet, very thick, all fruit
  • Fans have it shipped home by the case
  • If you like dry wine, recalibrate: this is dessert wine country

Tennessee Homemade Wines

Gatlinburg TV

Gatlinburg TV's short profile of Tennessee Homemade Wines, the Parkway sweet-wine tasting room.

Tennessee Homemade Wines // Taste of Tennessee

Lions Creative

The winery's own 2018 film: founded by local Gatlinburg folk in the Tennessee sweet-wine tradition, using fresh fruit and local craftsmen, with free samples at the foothills of the Smokies.

A note on captions

One film here (the WSMV best-seller segment) loads without its narration transcript — its caption file was corrupted upstream — so it appears on this page as watch content; the spoken case for the blackberry is on the other films.

Sources: the 8 videos on this page, filmed at Tennessee Homemade Wines in Gatlinburg and on the Smoky Mountain Winery Trail.

Watch: the full set

2 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Gatlinburg Wine Trail - Package

Emmy Briggs

A quick look at the Gatlinburg Wine Trail package in 2025 - the pass that bundles tastings across the Strip's wineries and cideries, Tennessee Homemade Wines among them.

Tennessee Homemade Wines - Gatlinburg Tennessee

BestReadGuide

BestReadGuide's 2019 profile of Tennessee Homemade Wines: local fruit, local craftsmen and southern hospitality, with staff help picking the right bottle.

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