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Article: New Indiana trail calls for a toast
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
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- June 13, 2004
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Brenda Simmons pours a sample of wine at the Simmons Winery in Columbus. The Simmons Winery, like the other 30 in Indiana, is family owned and operated.(PHOTO) (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS)
Brenda and David Simmons, along with Brenda's mother, Jean Kelsay, are bottling wine, the green glass clinking out a melody as bottles pass through this three-person assembly line.
"We really didn't have any intentions of starting a winery," said David Simmons. The Simmons farm has been in the family since 1885, but they planted their first grape vines in 1998 after depressed grain prices pushed them to try new crops.
A few months later, Simmons ...