Today we made our first visit to Keel and Curley Winery in Plant City, Florida. Keel and Curley Winery started in 2003 when “Joe Keel, a central Florida blueberry farmer wanted to find something to do with his end of crop blueberries. As in most produce farming, once the market price reaches a price which is lower than harvest and sale commissions, farms stop harvesting their crops. At this time in the season, there are still a lot of quality blueberries on the bushes. So Keel asked himself, “what can I do with this perfectly good fruit, to use it in a productive way and not waste it? Jellies, jams, blueberry pies? No!” Keel decided blueberry wine would be interesting to dabble with in the family farm house kitchen” (from Keel and Curley Website). We did the wine tasting where you get to try 12 different wines for $6. That is a great deal.  You even get to keep the glass.  They have a few more traditional wines, but most of the wines are more on the sweet end of the spectrum which suits us well and we found quite a few that we liked.

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