Nashville's hidden 'wine country' provides taste of Tennessee in whiskey barrels

"I toured a winery in Napa and thought, 'Wow, I think I'm in the wrong business. I need to figure out how to do this,'" Summers recalled.

Once he did, he met Vienneau while they were working together at a small family winery north of Nashville.

"We started the winery down here with the idea of providing a place for people to enjoy a little bit of wine country," Summers said - "but in Middle Tennessee."

That vision had its challenges.

"They are what they are here in Middle Tennessee," Summers said of the region's conditions.

Vienneau, who followed Summers to Arrington Vineyards in 2008, added, "It's almost impossible to grow [Cabernet] here in Tennessee.… We've obviously had to switch over to hybrids here, which still make really good wines, and they're a little more resistant to our climate here in Tennessee."

"The wine that's part of this Fox Wine Club is made from a grape called Chambourcin, which is well-known in Virginia and New York, and a lot of the areas in the eastern United States," Summers said.

The result is a "really good, consistent dry red wine for us every year," he said.

"That's one of the reasons we wanted that wine to be a part of the wine club, because it really is a true representation of what we've been doing here for three years."

"It's really versatile, too, for us," Vienneau added. "We make a Ruby-style port out of Chambourcin.… We can make a dry Rosé. We've made a really nice sparkling, French-method wine out of it."

Summers said the setting is part of the appeal.

"We're the only place that you can do that. Our proximity to Nashville makes it a no-brainer."

Since Arrington Vineyards is situated near Nashville and owned by a country music star, the soundtrack matters, too.

"It brings us all together," Vienneau added.

The Fox News Wine Shop bottle is also a chance to introduce Tennessee wine to more Americans.

"I'm just excited that people get to try - and will have an opportunity to try - really good wine from the state of Tennessee," he said.

"It's just such an unknown on a national basis.… Tennessee whiskey is a known quantity, but Tennessee wine is just completely unknown on a national level. Just giving people that opportunity is going to be fun."