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Sugar Creek Winery & Vineyards - Great Beginnings
(Excerpts from an article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch by Don Corrigan)

Not long ago the idea of running a wine business on the river bluffs between Defiance and Augusta was little more than a fantasy for the Millers. In fact, their dream was a more modest vision of moving from a Kirkwood home to one they hoped to build in the Sugar Creek Trails subdivision. Ken Miller was working in food-related sales, and Becky Miller was employed as a teacher in the Brentwood School District.

Becky Miller's two children, Michelle and Christopher Lorch, graduated from Kirkwood High School in 1981 and 1987 respectively. Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the Millers had some confusing mood swings. Sometimes they were in the mood to build that once-in-a-lifetime Kirkwood home; other times they were in the mood to pack it all up and head to the Missouri wine country they'd fallen in love with on numerous visits.                                                CONTINUE