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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS! Alexis Bailly Vineyard, Minnesota’s oldest winery, lies in the lush Upper Mississippi River Valley. Since 1973, this small family-owned vineyard and winery near Hastings has won national acclaim for its table wines. Undeterred by skeptics who asserted that no wine grape could withstand a Minnesota winter, Nan Bailly rose to the challenge of establishing a new viticultural region with her vineyard and winery in the Mississippi River Valley at Hastings. As French wine makers have long maintained that great wines must endure hardship, she proudly adopted her motto of “Where the Grapes Can Suffer”.CELEBRATING 50 YEARS! Alexis Bailly Vineyard, Minnesota’s oldest winery, lies in the lush Upper Mississippi River Valley. Since 1973, this small family-owned vineyard and winery near Hastings has won national acclaim for its table wines. Undeterred by skeptics who asserted that no wine grape could withstand a Minnesota winter, Nan Bailly rose to the challenge of establishing a new viticultural region with her vineyard and winery in the Mississippi River Valley at Hastings. As French wine makers have long maintained that great wines must endure hardship, she proudly adopted her motto of “Where the Grapes Can Suffer”.