If you love wine, chances are you’ve fantasized about making your own wine, maybe under your own label and living that wine country dream. But after decades of booming growth and winemaking in California, the Golden State is feeling a bit burned.
We’re talking to Megan Bell, winemaker and founder of Margins Wines in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. She was recently profiled in a San Francisco Chronicle story about struggles small wineries and winemakers face as they work to keep their labels going despite many challenges. Megan is the face of the story. We wanted to hear all about it straight from her – and while there’s gloom, she remains hopeful and pushes on. By the way, her wines are delicious!
Megan Bell has always been a champion of the underdog and of California’s underrated, lesser known wine-growing regions and of wine grapes that aren’t your typical varieties. Negrette, Counoise, Assyrtiko anyone?
But have Megan and her Margins wine become the underdog in the wine world themselves?
Megan is open and honest about her struggles. Less than a year ago, Megan was on the brink of bankruptcy. Yet, here she is, with a new wine tasting room in Santa Cruz, CA, and facing those challenges head on. Her’s is a revealing – and inspiring – look at what it really takes to run a winery in the current age.
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