(SeMissourian) - Shellie Gamel was a bank manager. Her husband Matt, a salesman. Then they got bitten by the wine bug. While living in Washington, Mo., after college, the couple began visiting wineries in Hermann, Mo., and Augusta, Mo., where they fell in love with wine and the possibility of producing it themselves. Someday, they thought, they'd make a go of it. So, in 2006 they planted 600 vines on their property west of the Mississippi River, in Friedheim, and just last month, after years of juggling jobs and a growing family, the winery opened its doors.