Meranda-Nixon Winery

About Us

Upon graduation from The Ohio State Univeristy's College of Agriculture, Seth returned to his roots in Brown Couny where he continued the tradition of tobacco and grain crops.   Further research about the soil and the land's history lead them to plant vineyards in 2003.  Seth's wife, Tina, grew up on the Nixon family farm in Warren County, graduated from Cincinnati State, and became active in the Brown County farm in 1998. They have two sons.

Below is the article written in our Ohio

Meranda-Nixon Winery featured
in both magazines,in fall of 2006.

Changing Times

Seth Meranda grew up on a tobacco farm and, after graduating from Ohio State University in 1994' planned to continue to grow the crop as his liveli­hood at his great-grandfather's farm. He said he didn't foresee the demise of the tobacco industry in southern Ohio.

"Around 1998 I saw the writing on the wall," Meranda said. "Free trade and cheap imports led to the demise of the industry here."

Seth and his wife, Tina, looked for an alternative crop to replace the tobacco.

"We knew the history of the land, and figured we'd try, too, to bring back the wine industry for the third time," he said.

In 2OO3 the Meranda Family Vine­yards was born on five and a half acres of land, with the first bottles of wine to be produced in 2OO7- The Merandas sold last year's crop of grapes to Kinkead Ridge for their River Village Cellars' Traminette wine. The couple is also building a winery on their property, adding to a growing list of wineries in the Ohio River Valley region.