Haze Gray Vineyards in Dobson is in the middle of harvest, as are almost all of the wineries across North Carolina.

It’s a six-year-old producer, managed by Deane and Becky Muhlenberg, a husband and wife who grew up in military families.

Deane served in the U.S. Navy for 30 years as a flight officer. With Becky by his side, they moved around the country and around the world, and, per the bio on the winery site, their children greeted their new locations with wide eyes. The family loves to travel.

All that travel led them to Snony Knoll, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. That purchase of the 85-acre farm in 2015 ended their traveling.

Dobson is the birthplace of the Yadkin Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA) , North Carolina’s first federally

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