From Amateur Winemaker to Unemployed to Heralded Winery: Seven Mountains Winery and the Journey of Scott and Mary Ann Bubo

摘要

Early victims of the Great Recession, Scott and Mary Ann Bubb both lost their jobs within months of each other in 2009. Their years of American Wine Society membership and their unqualified success in the AWS Amateur Wine Competition gave them something to fall back on. They "went commercial," opening Seven Mountains Winery in Spring Mills, in rural Central Pennsylvania. In three vintages they racked up so many wine accolades that the rookie winery has emerged as one of the top in the East. Scott and Mary Ann are the latest of growing ranks of AWS amateur wine-makers to make the leap to commercial winery. Few, if any, have risen as fast as Seven Mountains.