Catawba Island Wine Company

ing on Wine Cellar Road. It is located just east of the winery.A small, park- the lower cellar housed only sparkling wines and maintained a constant 50 degrees. Wine Company and like many wineries in the area, was constructed of native lime- ment sits between the winery and the road. shop, a special party room and the main dining room. Other rooms include offices The interior of the winery was reconstructed after a 1943 fire ghich gutted The Mon Ami winery was built between 1872 and 1873 for the Catawba Island and a small laboratory.The public rooms have been remodeled over the past two sits atop the east wall.

-unexposed bays on the east and west, with the north face a virtually solid limestone wall, and two floors of cellars below.It measured 124'x 54'and was 65'high from the - excellent . deteriorated _ unaltered X original site _moved date roads, West Catawba Road and East Catawba Road (State Route #53). The Betsy Mo- stored in the upper cellar, which held a constant temperature of 58 degrees, while the inside of the winery. Public rooms today include a wine tasting room, a gift John Cabin ( National Register ), a circa 1850 log cabin, is the only other build- good cabin. The completed four-story winery building included two stories above ground August 1982 used in the construction of the winery are located between the winery and the log today much as they did over 1o0 years ago.

(in one paragraph) as California and New York, coupled with the destruction by rot, mildew and other remainder of the 19th century, Ohio continued as a leading wine producing state, toll, Ohio remains a leading state in wine production today. early 1860's, Ohio's wine-growing industry shifted across the state to the shores inated wine-growing in Ohio, and over the years, wineries from this area have won numerous awards in state, national and international competition. of their homes. Much of the region's annual grape crop, however, was sold to large outside wineries, located in cities such as Toledo, Cincinnati and St.

Louis, which began forming large co-operative wineries, and in addition to the Kelleys Island the co-operatives were soon overshadowed by large, privately-owned wineries, they growers, although the Ellithorpe, Neal and Laudy families, who were pioneer settlers 1600-1699 1700-1799 1500-1599 architecture archeology-historic humanitarian Period commerce literature agriculture science exploration/settlement bridging the gap between the early grape growers and small wine producers and the acquired excellent reputations for their Lake Erie Island wines.Area grape growers with the Kelleys Island Wine Company in 1866, wine-growers on the various islands islands, which for various climatological reasons proved an ideal location for conservation Wine Company, other co-operatives were founded on North Bass Island in 1871,on The Mon Ami Restaurant and Historic Winery is significant as one of the oldest and although Prohibition and competition with California wines have taken their Catawba Island co-operative, the Catawba Island Wine Company, that constructed the diseases of the southern Ohio vineyards which had supported the wine industry led enjoyed a national and international reputation for its wines.The winery is of large, privately-owned wineries which later dominated wine production in the region.