Cheers: Time in a Bottle

Devin Barringer hears a familiar reminiscence repeated in the tasting room at the Feliciana Cellars winery in Jackson. “Everybody’s got a story about how they remember someone in their family making wine,” he says. The tug to sample native fruit wines, today made with science and deliberation, leads a growing number of regional travelers to Barringer’s Spanish Mission-style winery, located in East Feliciana Parish. “We’re getting a lot of people coming through who talk about our wines and other native wineries,” says Barringer. “It’s become a popular thing to do.” Feliciana Cellars produces nine different red, white and rosé-style wines from three varieties of muscadine grapes: the Ison, Carlos and Welder. The winery has performed well among its regional peers and has won several awards in the Wines of the South annual tasting competition. The Evangeline, a sweet white, is its most-decorated wine and top seller. Click here to read more about Feliciana Cellars.