09/19/2026
Mike and Toni Sadie Hawkins dance, Julian. Click here: https://julianjournal.com/menghini-w**ery-p423-200.htm to read this beautiful article by Megan Peralta from the Julian Journal. On a quiet orchard road outside Julian, childhood sweethearts Mike and Toni Menghini found their way back to each other and, in 1980, purchasing a weathered apple packing house they refused to tear down. To this day, they still share a glass of w**e on the porch at the end of the day. They married nearly half a century ago and, as Toni puts it, still like each other—friends first, which is how a marriage and a w**ery both survive. What began as c***r floors and broken windows became dances, weddings, and the annual Grape Stomp Festa; what they poured into the land came back as Julian Gold and the particular happiness of two people who found their passion and never left it. **e **ery
