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Article: In Missouri, Wineries Return after Dry Spell Caused by Prohibition.
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- November 11, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 10 -- HERMANN, Mo. -- On this splendid autumn day, Tim Puchta ambles downhill to the stone-lined cellar that his great-great-grandfather Adam built in 1855.
Puchta, 42, in torn blue jeans and worn work boots, looks for all the world as if he might be raising hogs, a vocation not out of place here along the Missouri River about 80 miles west of St. Louis.
But Puchta is not about pork, nor soybeans, nor corn. Puchta is about wine -- Missouri wine.
Along this stretch of the Missouri, from Sugar Creek Vineyards & Winery in Defiance to Les Bourgeois Vineyard & Winery in Washington to the Adam Puchta ...