If you are from Wisconsin, you might want to say so when you visit the Stanley Lambert winery in Australia’s Barossa Valley.
“Wisconsin visitors actually get special treatment. If I’m not already there, they call me up and I come in to see them,” said winery owner Jim Lambert. “They get a VIP tour. If they want, they come out to the vineyard and get a special tour.”
That is, unless this Wisconsin native is back home visiting friends and family. (And it was during his recent visit to Milwaukee that I met him and tasted the latest releases from Stanley Lambert.)
Lambert grew up on a farm in Manitowoc and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a couple of degrees in engineering. I