Rosa Fiorelli Winery & Vineyard hosts grape grapple
Stomp out Cancer event offers attendees food, crafts and barefoot grape crushing for a cause.
By
Amanda Sebastiano
| 10:10 p.m. August 15, 2015
East County
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With their pant legs rolled up and beads of sweating trickling down their foreheads, attendees of the Stomp Out Cancer event weren't leaving the East County vineyard without feeling the cold juice of squished grapes on their feet. After participants paid a fee and handpicked grapes from the vines to stomp, a faux Lucille Ball danced around the steel tub filled with grapes while she showed participants the ancient method once integral in the winemaking practice. Aug. 15 and Aug. 16, Rosa Fiorelli Winery & Vineyard again offered attendees two days of food, craft vendors, grape stomping and wine tasting on the multi-acre property, tucked away off County Road 675. Proceeds from the grape stomp benefited the American Cancer Society. For more information on the Rosa Fiorelli Winery &Vineyard, visit https://www.fiorelliwinery.com.
Monica Welde, Heather "Lucy" McFall and Tonie Waters dance on grapes.
Rosa Fiorelli poses with new winery owner Dave Chaloupka.
Cathy Henderson sells decorative plant holders at her Crafty Toucan store.Henderson
Beth Hill, of the Peach Lady's Stand, offers peach jam, whole peaches and other items flavored with the fruit.
Ed Mehrman, of Sun Fresh Produce, serves up bananas, mangos and other fruits to Traci Kundrat and other attendees.
The Harp family — Kathy, Bill, William and Vanessa — enjoy a family outing over the weekend.
Longtime friends Bernard Cleve and Kirby Keller made a pitstop at the event on their way to hunt alligators in Kissimmee.
Rachel Forsyth dances and spins around on a floor made of grapes.
Jason and Kayla Claeys tour the 20 acres of property during the event.
Myles and Delicia Stoltzfus check out the grapes planted throughout the vineyard.
Attendees stomped more than 20 pounds of grapes on Saturday.
Tonie Waters is surprised by the cold and squishy texture of the grapes she soon turns to wine.
The excess amount of rain helped the grapes grow healthier this year, because fewer people came out to pick the grapes and the fruit was able to grow on the vine longer.
