You don't have to fly to Napa for a tasting flight - Central Florida has legit wineries, vineyard tours, and tasting rooms within an easy drive of Orlando and Kissimmee. From muscadine and blueberry wines to polished tasting-room experiences, here's ...
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Florida's biggest winery, 30 minutes from Orlando in Clermont. Free tours and tastings, and the monthly festival weekends with live music are a blast.
Lakeridge Winery & Vineyards
An urban winery in Orlando's Milk District making sustainable small-batch wines. The tasting flights are generous and the vibe is zero pretension.
Quantum Leap Winery
Right by the Disney-area vacation homes in Kissimmee - blueberry wine tastings and wine slushies that are dangerously easy on a hot day.
Island Grove Wine Company at Formosa Gardens
Tasting room, wine club, and a full restaurant in one - the wine flight with dinner is my go-to move. Locations on I-Drive and at Waterford Lakes.
Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant
Blueberry wines made on a real Davenport farm just south of Kissimmee - the sangria and live-music weekends make it a fun afternoon out.
True Blue Winery
A muscadine vineyard near The Villages, about an hour out - tastings on the porch and seasonal grape stomps that are worth the drive alone.
Whispering Oaks Winery
The old Keel & Curley - strawberry and blueberry wines plus cider and a farm restaurant in Plant City. Great stop paired with berry-picking season.
Keel Farms
Worth folding into a St. Augustine day trip - free tours and tastings in a historic building, plus a rooftop wine and jazz bar upstairs.
San Sebastian Winery
Small family vineyard west of Orlando where you'll often get poured by the owners themselves. Bring a picnic and sit among the vines.
Strong Tower Vineyard & Winery
Bring the tasting room home - a few bucks of aerator makes that bottle you hauled back from Lakeridge taste like it was decanted for an hour.
Wine Aerator
Florida heat and wine glasses don't mix - an insulated tumbler keeps your pour cold through a whole vineyard concert night.
Wine Tumbler With Lid
Bottle, glasses, corkscrew, and cheese board all in one insulated tote - the move for Strong Tower picnics and Lakeridge festival lawns.
