This Tropical Escape in Florida Is a Fruit-filled Paradise—and It's Just 1 Hour From Miami

"Set on 30 acres dotted with tiki huts, limestone waterfalls, and koi ponds, this winery-brewery hybrid turns tropical fruit into a full lineup of pours, anchored by a plantation-style mansion with a spacious tasting room. At a circular oak bar I met owner Peter Schnebly, who recounted how a surplus of 40,000 pounds of slightly ripe avocados led him to ferment them; he poured a glass straight from a steel tank and noted it’s now their second-best-selling wine, with winemakers even flying in from France to ship bottles home. In the hangar-size brewery I sampled a hard guava cider, a coconut blonde ale, and a spicy mango-and-habanero wheat beer, and left with a six-pack of guava cider, three bottles of lychee wine, and a new appreciation for how inventive fruit wines can be." - Nora Walsh Nora Walsh Nora Walsh is an award-winning writer who specializes in luxury hotels, Latin America, and the intersection of wellness and adventure travel. Her work appears in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, Robb Report, and Afar, among others. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines