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Article: St. Julian Winery: take one family's passion for grapes, add a highway and stir in a pinch of Lake Michigan and you get the state's oldest winery.(Mariano Meconi)
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- Michigan History Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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When Mariano Meconi started making wine, Woodrow Wilson was president, Rudolph Valentino was heating up the silver screen and it cost two cents to mail a letter. The year was 1921 and the young Italian immigrant found himself in the wine-making business alter over-speculating on grapes and ending up with the better part of a railroad car full of ripe Concords.
Though Meconi's initial foray into winemaking was unplanned, he went on to found what is now the state's oldest winery--St. Julian located in Paw Paw--and instill in his family a passion for the business. Now run by grandson David Braganini (with great-granddaughter Angela ...
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