Bunker's Mill Winery is located in Cardington, Ohio (near Mt. Gilead and Marion), and I visited with a friend in early September. The winery is located in the village of Cardington, and the bottles of wine are bottled at Cardington from grapes and juices that originate from California and Pennsylvania. The dry red wines have at least two years in oak barrels, and the best standards are practiced.
Visitors can have a wine flight tasting of up to four wines. I had the following from dry to sweet:
Cayuga Dry is a Lake Erie white wine, and it has a hint of sweet grapefruit and herbaceous flavours.
Chardonnay is a light-bodied dry wine with crisp citrus and melon flavour.
Diamond is a Lake Erie sweet wine variety that reminds me of an old-fashioned grape.
Peach is a flavoured wine, a sweet wine made from peach juice.
Although the wine was okay, I did not have a particular favourite. They were not the most friendly venue and just seemed a little bit distracted.
The name of the winery is an ode to an early settler named Bunker who settled here in the 1830s. Cardington was the site of a grist mill, a lumber mill, and a carding mill. The village was hit by a tornado in 1981, and many of the buildings had to be rebuilt.
The winery had a couple of different rooms and a small outdoor area to enjoy the wines. There i also a gift shop in the winery with a large selection of wine and wine-related gifts.
There was a food truck outside the winery at the back serving pork products. Although there were a couple of other people there, it was not a very busy venue.
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