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<p>Wow, what a party!! So how did this ever happen?  Well, it was a whirlwind to get ready for opening on June 27th in 1999.  We had made the wine, gone through the arduous process of getting a license, scraped enough enough money to buy equipment and make renovations.  (All of this from what could pragmatically be considered thin air) and worked our asses off.</p>
<p><img class="alignright wp-image-3150 size-medium" src="https://rednewt.com/wp1/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Debra-Whiting0115-300x204.jpg" alt="building materieals arrived" width="300" height="204" />We started renovations in the tasting room just a few months before opening.  What a great day it was when we had the entire room in place... just not assembled:</p>
<p>We had gutted the future tasting room, which had been a bare bones warehouse with little insulation, insulated walls and ceiling, cut in doors &amp; windows, installed new ceiling &amp; lighting, hardwood floors, built new exterior deck and painted the entire building inside and out.  I did pretty much all of the painting to the tune of 200+ gallons of paint!</p>
<p>So, a short while before</p>
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