Native Vines Winery is the first American Indian owned winery in the country, owned and operated by Darlene Gabbard. They are located in Lexington, NC Ð homeland of the Keyauwee Tribe of Indians. The winery is located on 36 acres of rolling pasture and woodlands. BoonesÕ Cave State Park, 3 miles south, is where Daniel Boone hid from a War Party of Indians, on a cliff overlooking the Yadkin River. The farm has been in the family for hundreds of years and was part of the original Wachovia Land Grants of the 1750's. Native Vines is located in the Yadkin Valley Viticultural Area, North CarolinaÕs equivalent to Napa Valley. Native Vines has been producing fruit wines for 9 years, with a focus on apple and blackberry, because of the abundance of these fruits naturally on the farm.