Monona Tasting Room

Bryant grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and attended Madison West High School. After completing a BA in Business from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1986, Bryant took a field position with Nicolet Instrument Corporation in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Bryant quickly realized the best way to be a great tour director (for visiting friends and family) in California was frequent trips to California's Wine country. Consequently, that is how Bryant got hooked on wine. Over the years, Bryant took assignments in Houston, Texas and Annapolis, Maryland and eventually returned to Nicolet back in Madison. Well, the "25 year watch" was not meant to be for Bryant as his desire to strike out on his own finally caught up to him.

Currently, Bryant, Trish Nahn and their 3 daughters (and two yellow labs) reside in Janesville. You'll find Bryant to be passionate about the products in the Tasting Room on Monona Drive, referring to them as products of exceptional quality and value as well as products of stress relief and relaxation. Remember his motto of Wine and Cigar Hobby, Not snobby and come on in for a pleasurable all around experience.

Kevin has been in retail sales in the Madison area for 20 years. Selling wine and cigars might be new products to become acquainted with, but customer relations and the ins and outs of the day to day retail grind he is quite familiar with. In addition to helping out Bryant with "the cash register," he is able to put his college Art degree to use by helping decorate the walls of this new venue with paintings, masks, and gourd rattles he continues to make, as well as filling the ambience of the store with music he produces with his group, Earthboys.

Kevin is married with 3 children which along with all of his Art and music activities keeps him extremely busy and burning the late night candle quite often. Wine, Art, cigars, and music it all seems to come together in a harmonious symphonic way here at the Tasting Room.