world that have been in business for hundreds of years and didn’t win a medal, so I was real proud of that. The wine speaks for itself. Everybody just really seems to enjoy it.”
Diamondhead Wine is available in 22 diff erent varie es and fl avor combina ons, among them blueberry, mulberry, apple, persimmon, plums, blackberry, peach, plum, watermelon, cherry and elderberry. Mead, made with local honey, is a big seller. Pumpkin is a seasonal favorite.
“We have two cases of pumpkin le and it will be gone in two weeks. We start bo ling it in September and usually by the fi rst of November it’s gone. Next year we’ll do more. I actually did more this year than I did last year, I just s ll didn’t do enough. Next year I am going to have to double up on it because it’s such a hot item this me of year.”
Mickle lets his crea vity shine through with a pepper wine he calls “Three Amigos.”
“It’s habañero, cayenne and jalapeño,” he said. “It’s a hot wine – designed more for cooking than for drinking.”
Customers can also look forward to the release of both a prickly pear mead and a passion fruit mead in early 2016. If those new wines are anything like the others Mickle has released, they’ll be a hit.
“Every me I make a batch of wine I’m ge ng something a li le diff erent. Every me it’s unique. I have had no complaints yet. Like I said, we don’t use grapes and that’s one of the things that makes
us unique. We don’t use grapes or have a grape base. It’s one- hundred percent fruits and berries. This is not fruit-fl avored beer or a grape base that is fl avored with something else. It’s the real deal.”
Mickle has lived in the Diamondhead community, northwest of Pryor, for many years. He enjoys it here off the beaten path. He is a Pryor na ve and graduated from Pryor High School in 1968 before spending four years in military service as a member of the U.S. Army sta oned at Fort Hood, Texas. A leg injury eventually forced him out of ac ve duty. As a disabled veteran, Mickle is a member of the Veteran Farmer’s Coali on and can use the Homegrown by Heroes designa on on his label.
He le the area twice – once for eleven years to take a job in Tulsa as a mail carrier, a job from which he re red. The second me he hit the open road in a travel trailer for adventure.
“I was on the road for six years and enjoyed the heck out of it,” he said. “I was a rock hound. I’d go out and hunt fossils and minerals. I liked digging around in the desert. I was in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada – anywhere I could fi nd a desert. I really enjoyed that.”
And now Mickle makes wine for a living.
“I also used to do a li le hun ng and fi shing,” laughed Mickle. “That was before my hobby turned into work. Now I’m re red and have a full- me job.”
You can fi nd Diamondhead Wine at various farmer’s markets and events around northeast Oklahoma. For more informa on on how to purchase wine, visit online at: www.
diamondheadwine.com, follow them on Facebook or contact Mickle by phone at 918-864- 0414. You can also email at:
diamondheadwine@yahoo.com.
Diamondhead Wine carries the Homegrown by Heroes designa on.
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