Our historic civil war era building was built in 1868 and has had many tenants over the years, including being the home to the original Ahnapee Brewery, Kelsey Fly Net Co (which was the original business of our current Algoma Net Company), a factory, and feed mill storage building. Von Stiehl Winery made this building its own in 1967 by Dr. Charles Stiehl, the local physician known as Doc Stiehl.

As shocking as it is, there were no wineries in the state of Wisconsin at the time, so Doc Stiehl asked the state to create a winery license to legally sell his Door County Cherry Wine. Therefore, making von Stiehl the oldest licensed winery in the state of Wisconsin. We appreciate all that Doc Stiehl did in founding our winery and the Wisconsin wine industry. In 2009, we released a special wine in his honor: Doc Stiehl’s Cherry Bounce. The label was inspired by an old tonic label. Cherry Bounce is a blend of cherry brandy and the original von Stiehl cherry wine recipe.