Just about any day of the week in South Florida, you can find a shop hosting a wine tasting -- if traditional wines like Pinot Grigio and merlot are what you're looking for.

But if you're looking for tastes that are outside the mainstream, Schnebly Redland's Winery in Homestead serves wines made of tropical fruits -- carambola, mango, guava, passion fruit, lychee, avocado and the like.

``All our wines are grape-free,'' boasts one of the servers at Schnebly's tasting bar, pouring a taste of a sweet-ish wine made from carambolas.

Most of the wines are on the sweet side, but they're not cloying and are more complex than the sweet jug wines you'll find at the grocery store. If you take a sip and roll it on your tongue and think it tastes of guava, that's because it is made from guavas.

Peter and Denisse Schnebly farm more than 100 acres of tropical fruit orchards in southern Miami-Dade County. They started making wine from the blemished or overripe fruit that they couldn't sell, and in 2005, began selling the wine. Now they produce about 40,000 bottles of tropical fruit wines a year.

The winery opened a new tasting room two years ago and offers tastings every day: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Cost is $6 for a glass and tastes of five still tropical fruit wines, $7 for the ``special tasting'' of dessert and sparkling wines. Any time you bring back the glass, you get a free tasting.

The grounds also have coral waterfalls and large tikis where you can picnic or sip wine; the winery markets the location for weddings and other events. On some Friday evenings, Schnebly hosts Cool Summer Nights, with live music (next one is Aug. 28, with the band Pacific Rhythms).

• Schnebly Redland's Winery, 30205 SW 217th Ave., Homestead; 305- 242-1224; www.schneblywinery.com.

-- MARJIE LAMBERT