Bunker Hill Vineyard & Winery

Greenest Winery in America

Bunker Hill Vineyard and Winery is the greenest winery in America.
Larry and Lenora Woodham, refugees from the corporate life, are now living their green dream.
All the wine the Woodhams make goes into recycled bottles, all contributed by past customers, some of whom drive long distances to make the deposits. Out back an intern scrapes the labels off of old bottles.
But the Woodham sustainable practices go well beyond the recycled bottles. The vineyard drip irrigation system is solar--powered, only real oak corks seal the bottles (and used corks are sent to be recycled into cork tiles,) and all Bunker Hill bottles are sealed with genuine hot wax.
All the wines are handcrafted and unfiltered, never blended, fermented with the skin of the grape.
Radiating from a seep spring are vines of Florida Muscadine, growing as far as the eye can see. The grapes are handpicked, and brought to the pressing room, where they are hand crushed. The residue juice is taken into the adjacent climate-controlled fermentation room, where it sits for a couple weeks. Under the fermenting containers are large glass ampoules where the liquid is hand-siphoned, and eventually transferred into the 55-degree Cave, where the wine ages at least a year before being bottled, then hand labeled.
Ecotourism has never tasted so good!

Duette Elementary School Documentary

Produced in 2010 by Florida State University Students.