Fruit Cocktail

Miami Winery’s Fruit Wine

Antioxidants are important. So you make an effort to consume fruit everyday. Watermelon Mojitos. Apple martinis. Strawberries in your champagne.

Add tropical fruit wine to the mix.

The Miami Winery owns farms in the East Everglades, where they grow fruit and stomp it into Lychee, Guava, and Mango wine. The booze juice — which is chemical, preservative, and sulfite free — has garnered awards from fancy vintners around the world.

Pair the Mango variety with spicy dishes, drink the Guava as an aperitif, and serve the Lychee alongside Asian flavors.

2008 Miami International Wine Fair

The 2008 Miami International Wine Fair, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, featured the usual aisles of wines and wine sellers, and the usual throngs of wine enthusiasts, and the usual clique of ink-stained wretches such as me who were there to scribble some notes while, of course, and drinking wine. I started with a taste of local wine at a booth manned by the Miami Winery, and spoke with Alexis Paredes, President and CEO. The wines are “100 percent tropical fruit” -- mango, litchi, and guava to be precise -- which are grown on the family farm in the east Everglades. Alexis’s grandfather was a winemaker in Spain, and when they migrated to Cuba, they found “there were no grapes, but a lot of delicious fruits.” So, to make a long story short.....

2008 Washington D.C. International Wine & Food Festival

Among the highlights were the Wine That Loves series, Robert Mondavi’s Solaire series, and Miami Winery’s fruit wine. In order to simplify wine and food pairings, the team at Wine That Loves created a series of wine that is developed to enhance the flavors of food. The wines are designed to pair with the foods Americans enjoy most often and to reflect American tastes.

2008 Miami Winery, Style File Channel 7 News