I was often [selling] on golf courses, at restaurants and nightclubs, and people would always tell me the same thing: they were tired of supporting the large-scale brands because you can get those wines everywhere. They wanted to really support small batches. They wanted to support local [liquor brands]. There are some great wineries that people didn’t know existed in Illinois and in the midwest in general,” she says. “I decided to do what everyone told me I could not do. Some people said, ‘You don’t have a vineyard. How in the world can you do that?’ ‘You didn’t grow up in Napa [Valley]. How could you do that?’ And I said, ‘Watch me.
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