Cheerwine is a soft drink produced by the Carolina Beverage Corporation of Salisbury, North Carolina. It has been produced since 1917. When the Maysville Syrup Company of Maysville, Kentucky went under in 1917, L.D. Peeler and other invested businessmen moved the company to North Carolina and renamed it the Carolina Beverage Corporation.

That same year, Peeler purchased a recipe for a cherry flavored soda from a Saint Louis flavor salesman, which eventually became Cheerwine. Though it had been around since 1917, Cheerwine first became a registered trademark in 1926. Notable for its fairly unusual "cherry taste and rich burgundy color," Cheerwine has a very sweet cherry flavor and an unusually high degree of carbonation compared with many other soft drinks.

Named for both its color and taste the company website explains that “it made sense to name a burgundy-red, bubbly, cherry concoction—Cheerwine." The "Retro Cheerwine" variant is sold in glass bottles and is sweetened with cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.

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