A Winery on the rim of an active volcano Kilauea, the Volcano Winer...

Volcano Winery

I was visiting the Volcano National Park in Hawaii and noticed a winery on the Map near a small town Volcano Village. So I visited the Volcano Winery. The southernmost winery in America on the Big Island if Hawaii. The Hawaiian Islands were created by volcanos on the floor of the Pacifuc Ocean. These volcanoes have been erupting for thousands of years and it successive eruption piles lava on lava, which created first hills of lava, then mountains of lava, which eventually broke the surface of the ocean and extend several hundred to several thousands of feet above sea level. Multiple volcanoes occur relatively close to each other and they rise out of the sea together. The mountains and the lava flows between them rise out of the ocean forming islands. The truly amazing thing about these volcanos is that they are truly so big, that people are to the mountain as fleas are to a dog. The scale of size is hard to image. But perhaps it helps if you imagine a flea on the back of a dog. The flea is in a forest of hair on the dogs back. If the flea were to climb to the top of a hair and look up, the flea would sea the dogs head in the far distance. The flea would look at the dogs head and exclaim there is the dog. The flea would not understand that he sees only the dogs head in the distance, not the whole dog. The flea doesn’t understand that he is actually on the dog. In a similar manner people living on a Hawaiian Island can see the peaks of the volcanoes which formed the Islands. The people point at the peak and say the volcano is over there, it’s 50 miles north of here. But they don’t understand they see only the peak in the distance. They are actually on the volcano already. But it is so big and extends from one end of the horizon to the other.So with that thought in mind, when I visited Volcano Winery, it was on a map a few miles south of Volcano National Park where you can visit Kilauea crater, the peak of the Kilauea Volcano. But this winery is a few miles away, but it is still on Kilauea Volcano, on the South side of the volcano/mountain.

A brief history of the Volcano Winery.
It was established in 1986 on 15 acres of land at 4286 feet elevation above sea level. They have four standard wines, two premium wines and unusual wines called infusions of wine and tea with locally raised honey and one flavored with a unique nut found only in Hawaii; the Macadamia Nut.

The following are pictures from this visit.

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These were apparently award winning wines. As medals were awarded in wine contests.

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They also created TEA WINES which were wines combined with black tea and white tea, which was grown on the premises.

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The black tea was also an award winner!

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The also had a small shop selling Volcano Winery branded merchandise.

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The prices seemed reasonable and there was also a wine club you could join for a 10% discount on purchases and shipping.

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It was a fun place with friendly staff and award winning, reasonably priced wine. I recommend it on your next visit to the Big Island of Hawaii.

Stay thirsty my friends and enjoy life.

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