Article: The wine sellers: Eight Florida wineries offer a taste of the industry's struggles and successes. (Dining with Tolf).(Directory)

I have done my fair share of wine tasting and vineyard touring in this planet of the grapes -- all over Europe, Napa, Sonoma, Washington, New York, even Ohio and Wisconsin, and most recently Oregon -- but I still enjoy making the rounds of the growers and grape crushers in the state that was the first in the New World to honor Bacchus and produce wine from native grapes -- Florida.

The Huguenots around Fort Caroline were the pioneers. Those who followed learned that only Florida hybrid bunch grapes and muscadines, southeastern natives, thrive in our climate, providing the raw material for a rather modest wine industry; encouraged by programs at the University of ...

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