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Article: Bear creek winery and lodging offers unique experience: at first the B & B supported the winery, Now the winery supports the B & B.
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Building a winery in Alaska is a lot like making lemonade out of lemons--when the nearest lemon tree is thousands of miles away.
Just ask Bill and Dorothy Fry, owner/operators of Bear Creek Winery and Lodging in Homer.
What began as a hobby in their garage quickly evolved into a passion and then into the couple's primary livelihood.
Now the Frys are banking on the fruits of their labor, literally.
"The first thing people ask us is, 'Where do you grow your grapes?'" Dorothy said.
Inconveniently located in grape-free Alaska, the Frys import concentrate for most of their conventional wines.
For their most popular ...