Schnebly Redland’s Winery & Miami Brewing Company

Schnebly Redland’s Winery sits on a former mango and lychee grove on SW 217th Avenue in the Redland, the agricultural district that spreads across unincorporated Miami-Dade County around Homestead. Denisse and Peter Schnebly built the winery on land that had been in Denisse’s family, turning what had been a fruit growing operation into a winery that makes wine from tropical produce grown in the surrounding fields rather than from grapes, which do not thrive in South Florida’s climate. The winery describes itself as the southernmost winery in the continental United States, a claim tied directly to its Redland location near the tip of the Florida peninsula.

The core of the business is fruit wine made from crops like mango, passion fruit, guava, lychee, and carambola, grown on site or sourced from nearby Redland farms. These are not sweetened novelty wines dressed up for tourists; the winery presses and ferments the fruit using the same basic process used for grape wine, and results range from crisp and dry to noticeably sweeter depending on the fruit. Tastings are available at the property, letting visitors sample several styles before deciding what to bring home.

Alongside the winery, the Schnebly family operates Miami Brewing Company on the same property, producing craft beer under a separate brand but sharing the tasting room, restaurant, and grounds. The brewery leans into the same tropical, South Florida identity as the winery, sometimes incorporating local fruit or honey into its beers alongside more standard styles like lager and IPA. Having both a winery and a brewery under one roof gives visitors a reason to linger, since a table can order a flight of wine and a flight of beer without leaving the property.

The grounds include an open air restaurant built around ingredients from surrounding Redland farms, along with event space that hosts weddings and private parties in a setting shaped by the original grove’s mature tropical trees. The combination of winery, brewery, restaurant, and event venue makes it one of the larger hospitality operations to come out of Homestead’s farming community, though it remains family owned rather than backed by an outside beverage company.

Hours vary through the week, generally opening around midday and running later on weekends, and the property draws a mix of local Miami-Dade visitors on a day trip and tourists combining a stop here with a drive through the Redland’s produce stands or a visit to Everglades National Park nearby. Because it sits in the rural Redland rather than downtown Homestead proper, visitors should plan for a short drive from Krome Avenue and expect a property built more like a working farm winery than an urban tasting room. Reservations are recommended for the restaurant on weekend evenings and for larger groups touring the winery and brewery together.