Article: Florida Winery's a Corker

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.

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