{"id":206185,"date":"2024-01-18T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=206185"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:52:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T18:52:16","slug":"uconn-magazine-everythings-coming-up-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/01\/uconn-magazine-everythings-coming-up-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Everything&#8217;s Coming up Ros\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019d barely finished renovating the WWII-era private airplane hangar into a tasting room, barely planted their first vines, when they hosted a beautiful September wedding for friends \u2014 and unwittingly turned their budding winery, Saltwater Farm Vineyard in Stonington, Connecticut, into a sought-after wedding venue. Demand is so high that, two decades later, Michael Connery \u201975 JD and his wife, Merrily, find themselves opening a second vineyard and event venue, Kingdom of the Hawk, in North Stonington, a few miles inland.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with a listing for 108 acres on the Stonington coastline that Michael, poised for a \u201cnext chapter\u201d after 30 years as an attorney in Manhattan, suspected would be as good a host to French grapes as the soil across the bay on the North Fork of Long Island. \u201cIf they can do it there &#8230;\u201d he surmised. And he was right. The Connerys have harvested cabernet franc, merlot, pinot noir, chardonnay, and sauvignon blanc grapes, and learned that merlot doesn\u2019t winter as well in Stonington as it does on Long Island. But sauvignon blanc does even better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2023\/10\/24\/everythings-coming-up-rose\/?utm_campaign=magazine_fall_2023&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the things Michael Connery \u201975 JD likes most about his second-chapter vocation as a vineyard owner are the view and \u201cthat sense of creating something tangible\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":206187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1857,2235,102,2227],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-206185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-law","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-uconn-edu-homepage"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 11:19:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208616,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206185\/revisions\/208616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/206187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206185"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=206185"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=206185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}