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Articles from the 'The Story Of Dorner Family Vineyard' series


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  • The end of our journey

    Michele Dorner|Aug 29, 2020

    Framing of the Dorner Family tasting room and winery began in January 2017. Semi trucks full of lumber began their weekly delivery to our property. Never one to let work interfere with our traveling, we continued with our plans to travel to Africa in early March for our much-anticipated safari and tour of Egypt. Landing on a narrow dirt airstrip in a tiny 8-seater plane marked the beginning of our time in the Masai Mara. Getting up close with the elephants, giraffes, zebras and lions on our...

  • 'A decade in the making'

    Michele Dorner, Dorner Family Vineyard|Jun 20, 2020

    As the Grand opening of our Tasting Room and Winery quickly approaches, Mike and I reflect back on the 10-year journey that brought us to this very spot in our lives. Prior to 2009, nothing would have indicated the path that we would take this past decade, the skills that we would acquire along the way, or the friends that we would make throughout the sometimes exhausting, always interesting, but never boring process. In the summer of 2009, after planning and saving for five years, we set off on...