“Farm to Table” Wines!
Why these Wines
Deserve a Place at Your Table!
America consumes about 350 million
cases of wine every year. Most of these
wines are consumed with food and with friends and family. Most of these wines
are produced by huge wineries with names that are familiar to most of us. Surely, these wines are ‘Farm to Table’ wines
and deserve a place at our table, right? Well,….maybe.
To answer that question, we’ve got to
understand what makes a ‘Farm to Table’ wine.
‘Farm to Table’ wines are wines that come
from wineries that do it all. They will have three or four of the following words
clearly embossed on their labels. Those words are…”GROWN,
PRODUCED, VINTED and BOTTLED” or “PRODUCED, VINTED and BOTTLED”!
No other wine can or
should be considered a ‘Farm to Table’ wine! Most are “UNFILTERED” and
are made from “WHOLE FRESH FRUITS and Vegetables”!
Wineries creating these wines are as
important to our local communities as the local farmer who grows those fresh
fruits and vegetables for our tables. Today, most of us understand how
important it is to us to support our local farmers and growers. Local ‘Farm to
Table’ wineries, however, have mostly slipped through the cracks. We go to
great lengths to serve our friends and families fresh farm to table foods, but
we seldom give a though to where our wines come from or how they are made.
Starting this holiday season and
continuing throughout the coming years, please, seek out the local wineries in
your community that are producing wines from the soils beneath your feet.
In the State of Florida, the best
place to begin is with our “Certified Florida Farm Wineries”! As of this writing, there are approx. 25 within our state (Bunker Hill
Vineyard and Winery is one of these 25 Certified Florida Farm Wineries). You can find a complete list by contacting the ‘Florida Department of
Agriculture & Consumer Services’ website.
By Florida state law, a ‘Certified Florida Farm Winery’ must
produce a minimum of 60% of their wines from Florida grown commodities.
We at Bunker Hill Vineyard and Winery are at…97%!!
Thank You…”Salute
& Happy Days”!
