After purchasing this property along the Kentucky River for its scenic beauty, Tom Beall learned that it was the site of the first commercial vineyard and winery in the nation. He and business partner Bobbye Carpenter spent four years verifying its place in history while working to start up the vineyard and winery again. It reopened in 2012 after a two-century hiatus. (Leslie Mertz) Years of research and a good helping of serendipity led to the exact location of the first commercial vineyard and winery in the United States, and it wasn’t in Virginia or California, but in Kentucky, a […]