In an odd twist on history, the story of Robert Wollersheim’s professional life begins with the space program and moves back into the hills of a 19th-century vineyard.
The result was the Wollersheim Winery, overlooking the Wisconsin River near Prairie du Sac. Wollersheim – then engineering manager and a project manager for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center – was already starting to grow grapes when he discovered the long-abandoned vineyard.