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From berry to bottle at Sweet Acre Farms
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Chris Barto affixes labels onto bottles of Sweet Acre Farms blackberry wine Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at the Alto winery. The small winery uses the help of local volunteers to get their product into stores. - photo by Scott Rogers
A small group of volunteers gathered Friday to bottle a batch of Bramblin’ Sam, a blackberry and apple wine that is the most popular at Sweet Acre Farms Winery in Alto.Volunteers respond to calls on social media to gather at the winery to help bottle some of their favorite bottles, and many of the volunteers have been with the winery since the beginning. Jackie Wilson Richardson has been volunteering at the winery since it opened in 2016, and she came Friday afternoon to help out. She grew up on Bill Wilson Road, which is named after her grandfather and is where the winery is now located.