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01.05.2009

Mencarini family of Abundance Vineyards opens a tasting room

Rustic by design, Abundance Vineyards' new Lodi tasting room also reflects the owners' Italian heritage.

Lodi, Calif. -- Abundance Vineyards opened Lodi's newest tasting room Dec. 19, less than four months after starting construction, but the new 4,000-square-foot structure culminates a lifetime of work and a long-time dream of third-generation Lodi grapegrowers Dino and Ron Mencarini. The new facility strongly reflects the Mencarini's Italian heritage, and represents a tribute to their grandparents who immigrated from Italy and began farming in the Lodi area in the 1800s.

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Wannabe Winemaker Thinks Ahead

01.02.2009

Chicago businessman puts his back and his mind into achieving the dream

Ira Kreft inspects Pinot Noir must with mentor Adam Satchwell at Shady Lane.

Chicago, Ill. -- While the financial industry was awash in bad news last fall, Chicago investment manager Ira Kreft found himself washing lugs 300 miles from his office. At age 50, he was participating in an internship of sorts--two unpaid, self-solicited weeks of hard harvest labor in two northern Michigan wineries--experiences intended to help him transition from the world of finance to vineyards and wineries.

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