Article: Illinois vintners cultivate an audience with award-winning wines.(Blue Sky Vineyard )(Industry Overview)

Byline: Bill Daley

All the roads seem to be back roads in southern Illinois, ribbons of blacktop that dip and dart through farm fields and woodlands that seem startlingly hilly after Chicago's prairie flatness. This is that "other" Illinois you hear of, a hard-working and somewhat hard-scrabble area whose residents make it clear they're from the "southern" part of the state to distinguish themselves from the city slickers up north. It's not a place you would think of for wine.

What, then, is a $2 million Tuscan villa doing rising amid grapevines just outside of Makanda, population 419? There's a surreal "Field of Dreams" quality to Blue Sky Vineyard, ...

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