I went to Bunker Hill winery today. Have not been there for a while.
I did buy some wine, but I also took them about 35 empty bottles that I
saved for them to recycle. It is a real small Mom & Pop operation. When visiting, every time the owners are doing everything.
I consider most of what they make "fun" wines, good, not something to
pair with a $100 steak. I got a bottle of the Dandelion Petal Nice
light flavor, good to just drink on its own. Bottle of Orange, made
from local fresh juice.
https://www.bunkerhillvineyard.com/
On 2025-03-27 4:58 p.m., Ed P wrote:
I went to Bunker Hill winery today. Have not been there for a while.It's nice to have wineries close to home. We had one open up around the
I did buy some wine, but I also took them about 35 empty bottles that I
saved for them to recycle. It is a real small Mom & Pop operation. When
visiting, every time the owners are doing everything.
corner from us. They planted a couple years ago and started selling
their products last year. I haven't dropped in to try them out yet.They
only have a couple acres of grapes so far, at least on that property. I
was surprised to see them planting a vineyard there. Niagara is a major >grape growing region but most of the vineyards are on the north side,
along and near the escarpment and around Niagara on the Lake. The soils
are completely different. I am on the back side of the escarpment and
it is sandy loam, not shale and limestone.
Do you have to take the wine bottles all the way back there to recycle?
In Ontario we pay a a deposit on all alcohol containers including the >bladders in boxed wines. We take then back to the Beer Store to collect
the deposits.
I went to Bunker Hill winery today. Have not been there for a while.
I did buy some wine, but I also took them about 35 empty bottles that I
saved for them to recycle. It is a real small Mom & Pop operation. When visiting, every time the owners are doing everything.
I consider most of what they make "fun" wines, good, not something to
pair with a $100 steak. I got a bottle of the Dandelion Petal Nice
light flavor, good to just drink on its own. Bottle of Orange, made
from local fresh juice.
On 2025-03-27 4:58 p.m., Ed P wrote:
I went to Bunker Hill winery today. Have not been there for a while.It's nice to have wineries close to home. We had one open up around the
I did buy some wine, but I also took them about 35 empty bottles that
I saved for them to recycle. It is a real small Mom & Pop operation.
When visiting, every time the owners are doing everything.
corner from us. They planted a couple years ago and started selling
their products last year. I haven't dropped in to try them out yet.They
only have a couple acres of grapes so far, at least on that property. I
was surprised to see them planting a vineyard there. Niagara is a major grape growing region but most of the vineyards are on the north side,
along and near the escarpment and around Niagara on the Lake. The soils
are completely different. I am on the back side of the escarpment and
it is sandy loam, not shale and limestone.
Do you have to take the wine bottles all the way back there to recycle?
In Ontario we pay a a deposit on all alcohol containers including the bladders in boxed wines. We take then back to the Beer Store to collect
the deposits.
I consider most of what they make "fun" wines, good, not something to
pair with a $100 steak. I got a bottle of the Dandelion Petal Nice
light flavor, good to just drink on its own. Bottle of Orange, made
from local fresh juice.
I was wondering. I had a look on Google Maps and they don't seem to have
many grapes growing around there. A number of our local wineries grow
a lot of their own grapes but a number of them buy mostly from family
owned grape farms. FWIW, some of the best local wines are made by a
small number of independent winemakers. One of my neighbours is a
premier wine maker who gets contracted to oversee production at a number
of small wineries and is very active in the Cold Climate Chardonnay organization. His work takes him to Oregon, France, South American and Australia.
On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:37:53 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 2025-03-27 4:58 p.m., Ed P wrote:
I went to Bunker Hill winery today. Have not been there for a while.It's nice to have wineries close to home. We had one open up around the
I did buy some wine, but I also took them about 35 empty bottles that I
saved for them to recycle. It is a real small Mom & Pop operation. When >>> visiting, every time the owners are doing everything.
corner from us. They planted a couple years ago and started selling
their products last year. I haven't dropped in to try them out yet.They
only have a couple acres of grapes so far, at least on that property. I
was surprised to see them planting a vineyard there. Niagara is a major
grape growing region but most of the vineyards are on the north side,
along and near the escarpment and around Niagara on the Lake. The soils
are completely different. I am on the back side of the escarpment and
it is sandy loam, not shale and limestone.
Do you have to take the wine bottles all the way back there to recycle?
In Ontario we pay a a deposit on all alcohol containers including the
bladders in boxed wines. We take then back to the Beer Store to collect
the deposits.
That doesn't sound like something a red state would do. Red states
like to destroy the environment.
Do you have to take the wine bottles all the way back there to recycle?
In Ontario we pay a a deposit on all alcohol containers including the bladders in boxed wines. We take then back to the Beer Store to collect
the deposits.
On 3/27/2025 5:37 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
Do you have to take the wine bottles all the way back there toWe have no deposits in this state. we do have recycling pickup and
recycle? In Ontario we pay a a deposit on all alcohol containers
including the bladders in boxed wines. We take then back to the Beer
Store to collect the deposits.
glass goes someplace to be re-processed. This winery just cleans and
uses the bottle as is. Minimal processing.
From their website.
Wine Bottles
We take 750 ml. wine bottles and 12 oz (355 ml.) beer bottles in all
shapes and colors. Please be sure to rinse out your empty wine and beer bottles with clean water before dropping them off to us. This will help remove any leftover wine or beer residue that could attract bugs.
We do not, however, take other Florida winery wine bottles. We believe
their bottles should be returned back to them.
Did you know that more than 300 million cases of wine are sold in the
United States each year? An estimated 70% of these wine bottles end up
in our local landfills (per the EPA) and for every ton of glass that we
have to replace, 384 lb. of mining waste is created. For every ton of
glass that we have to replace, we have to use 1,330 lb. of sand, 433 lb.
of soda ash, 433 lb. of limestone, 30 lb. of air pollution and 151 lb.
of feldspar.
Glass wine and beer bottles never wear out and they can be recycled and reused forever. By only using recycled wine and beer bottles, we have
reduced our carbon footprint by a whopping 60%!
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