Vincent William · Madison, Ohio

A winery, a restaurant and eight rooms on Lake Erie.

1300 Belleair Avenue, Madison, Ohio. Estate Cabernet Franc grown in the Grand River Valley, a kitchen that buys in season, and a speakeasy in the oldest part of the house.

The M Cellars tasting room, terrace and vineyard from above

Grand River Valley

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Vincent William from the air, above Lake Erie

The Story

An unfinished house above the water, a summer hotel that erosion took in 1962, and the eight years in between.

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A glass on the lawn above the beach at sunset

The Gallery

Thirty pictures across one season — the lake, the vineyard, the kitchen, the cellar and the rooms.

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