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Article: Florida Winery's a Corker
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 7, 1992
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Copyright informationCopyright 1992 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
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DE FUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. Florida is a place not usually
synonymous with production of fine wines, but here amid the piney
woods of the state's northwest Panhandle, a fledgling winery is
starting to make a go of it.
Chautauqua Vineyards, a firm of 10 employees, is still the
largest winery in Florida, and is just completing its 400-ton fall
harvest of 100 acres.
Chautauqua - with vines hand-planted in 1979, had its "first
crush" in 1989. That vintage sold 150,000 bottles, mostly -
according to general manager Steven R. White - "out the front door"
of the tasting room of the modern winery here, located just off
Interstate 10 about halfway between Tallahassee and Pensacola.
Chautauqua ...
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