Explore 'Nashville's Hidden Wine Country' at Arrington Vineyards

ARRINGTON, Tenn. (WKRN) — Known as “Nashville’s wine country,”
Arrington Vineyards
provides panoramic vistas, accolade-winning vintages, and live musical performances.

“When we initially began, there weren’t as many excellent choices for wine and cuisine in Nashville compared to what we have today,” stated Kip Summers, co-founder and President of Arrington Vineyards.

The property was initially a hog and cattle farm, with the initial planting of grapevines occurring in 2003.

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What we were specifically searching for was a northerly sloping terrain that would be ideal for grape cultivation,” Summers stated. “Given Tennessee’s high rainfall, having an area where water can easily drain down the hillside is crucial.

In 2007, Kip Summers, who was both the co-founder and president along with musician Kix Brooks, launched Arrington Vineyards. They later brought on an additional partner.

“We wanted to basically create a piece of wine country — what you would expect to see when you go to wine country with the experience of vineyards and wineries — and basically put that down in eastern Williamson County and be a place that would attract people from Nashville, and Franklin and Murfreesboro and the region generally,” Summers said.

Strolling among the lines of grapevines, one can easily observe the development — both physically and metaphorically. A vision has transformed into an endpoint here.

“We are producing around 60 tons of grapes, so a little over 100,000 pounds of grapes, from all of these vines,” Summers said.

“Word of mouth spread pretty quickly, and we became a very popular place to come to during the pandemic in ’20 and ’21, and that just continued in ’22 and ’23,” Summers said. “We’ve grown a lot in the last five years.”

Since then, the vineyard has attracted tourists from all over the world.

“I saw Arrington Vineyards and it looked really pretty,” Kaydee Bass, a tourist from Texas, said. “So we were like, ‘Let’s make the drive and see what it is all about.’”

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“We don’t have a lot of this back home, so it was really cool to get to a true vineyard,” a bachelorette from Texas, Aubrey Lang, said.

Eighteen years after they opened, new buds signal the beginning of yet another growth season.

It goes beyond simply saying, ‘That was intriguing’ or ‘That was enjoyable,’ but it becomes an experience they can integrate into their lives as a genuinely positive recollection,” Summers explained. “[It’s] a place where they can return whenever they wish to relive those moments.

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