Article: Manager Says Florida Wineries Provide 'Comforting Taste to Many People'.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)

CLERMONT, Fla.--Dec. 24--Delbert and Joyce Harris were driving from Kissimmee back home to Oklahoma last week when they spotted an unusual billboard.

It was a picture of a huge wine bottle surrounded by the title, "Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards."

A Florida winery? "That really surprised me," said Joyce Harris. "I mean, you think of Florida, you think of beaches or citrus. I didn't know that it had wineries."

Neither do a lot of Floridians. But Florida is home to three farm wineries that this year produced 90,000 gallons of wine ranging from red and white table wines to sparkling wines and specialties like Carambola, which is made from star fruit, a ...

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