Jennifer McDonald

Jennifer McDonald is the Founder, CEO and award-winning Winemaker of Jenny Dawn Cellars. She has spent the past four years turning her passion for wine and her love of the unique ability wine has to bring people together into a vision of expanding both depth and diversity in the local and national urban wine scene. Jennifer’s mission is to expand her wine brand to compete in the global market.

Jennifer has a Master’s Degree in Agribusiness from Kansas State University and has taken winemaking courses through UC Davis. Jennifer has developed and produced research data on consumer wine preferences. Her 2017 Chardonnay won Best of Class in the 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. She has received a gold, three silver and two bronze medals from the Kansas Winemakers and Grape Growers Association wine contest. In 2017, she won the Innovations in Business Award presented by Young Professionals of Wichita and was also recognized as one of Wichita’s top 40 people in business under age 40 by the Wichita Business Journal. Jennifer is also a wine connoisseur and studying to become a Certified Sommelier.

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