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Cancer Can't Stop Dunedin Wine Makers

The owners of Two Lions Winery, a microwinery on Main Street near Belcher, are determined to win a gold medal for wine and a battle against colon cancer.

Neither colon cancer nor financial strain is keeping the owners of Two Lions Winery from their vision of a bright future in Dunedin. Rose Post and Kevin Zylstra are building a name for themselves as expert wine makers at Two Lions Winery, tucked cozily in a shopping center on Main Street near Belcher Road.  Six of their wines have received silver and bronze medals over the last two years. But the couple is keeping its eye on winning gold, despite Zylstra’s diagnosis with stage IV colon cancer last September, discovered during a routine colonoscopy.  When Post and Zylstra opened a few years ago, the longtime couple felt they had finally found a business they could do together. Post had run a Chinese restaurant for many years, but she wouldn…

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