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2021 — present
The second winery is a meadery: South Bend's second name in the wine record is Perry Vine, the micro-winery and meadery of Tavarus and Kamika Perry, and it enters at its documented size, which is small and specific. The Perrys began as hobbyists making mead, cider and wine; their first public tasting stands dated in the Junior Achievement account — 14 May 2021, at the JA Wine & Beer Festival at Four Winds Field, where, festival-goers told them their mead was the best they had had. The state's own record carries the house as a licensed maker: the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission's agenda of 1 July 2025 lists PERRY VINE LLC holding a Farm Winery permit (permit MM7130704) with a direct wine seller's permit beside it — the farm-winery class under which Indiana's small wineries and meaderies operate.
Scale and present state: The trade press sizes the house at about 250 bottles a month across eleven varieties, in Farm Flavor's December 2024 account — meads first, with ciders and wines — sold from the storefront at 121 South Niles Avenue, Suite 15, with Friday tastings in the Perrys' own listings. It stands operating in November 2026. Printed at its true size, Perry Vine completes this city's wine record as it stands: a four-acre vineyard on Brick Road, a 250-bottle-a-month meadery on Niles Avenue, and nothing before them in three centuries of settlement — a wine history that is twenty-first-century entire, in a city that brewed for a hundred and fifty years.
Sources:
- Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana, "Tavarus & Kamika Perry" — the hobby origin in mead, cider and wine, and the first public tasting at the JA Wine & Beer Festival, Four Winds Field, 14 May 2021; Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission, agenda of 1 July 2025 (in.gov/atc) — PERRY VINE LLC's Farm Winery permit MM7130704 and Direct Wine Seller permit.
- Farm Flavor, "Perry Vine" (farmflavor.com, December 2024) — production of about 250 bottles a month and eleven varieties; the company's own listings — the storefront at 121 South Niles Avenue, Suite 15, and its Friday tastings, operating November 2026.