{"id":3965,"date":"2025-08-09T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2025-08-09T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:12:43","slug":"chateau-hough-provides-wine-and-peace-in-rugged-cleveland-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/chateau-hough-provides-wine-and-peace-in-rugged-cleveland-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch\u00e2teau Hough provides wine and peace in rugged Cleveland neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Aamina Edwards and Laila Dyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NABJ JSHOP Reporters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you search \u201cHough Neighborhood Cleveland\u201d on Google, you\u2019re met with headlines like, \u201cChild Stabbed in Cleveland\u2019s Hough Neighborhood&#8221;<em> <\/em>or \u201c22-year-old man murdered in Hough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But these headlines don\u2019t tell the whole story of the neighborhood. They don\u2019t capture all that it has to offer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, a group of NABJ JSHOP reporters from Cleveland and Chicago traveled to the neighborhood and were greeted by a deer galloping across the street and the warm, inviting scent of fermented grapes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There, they met by Brenda Frazier, owner and operator of Ch\u00e2teau Hough Vineyards and Winery, a little bit of nature in an urban setting. It\u2019s located between downtown Cleveland and University Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo me, Cleveland is a very positive place to live,\u201d Frazier said. She took over the Ch\u00e2teau after the death of her husband, local writer and community activist Mansfield Frazier, in 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frazier\u2019s serious but gentle tone brightened when she spoke to the students about her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhatever ideas Mansfield Frazier came up with mostly, people would be drawn to,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was my idea man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ch\u00e2teau Hough provides wine &amp; peace in Cleveland\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSFg5SJqrGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said her husband responded to the city of Cleveland\u2019s request for proposals to start a vineyard in 2009, and he started planting the grape vines in 2010. Helping his city was a big part of Mansfield Frazier\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because he had been in prison, Frazier made it a point to hire workers who were formerly incarcerated as a way of supporting them, the city and the neighborhood. According to the vineyard&#8217;s website, the goal of the project was to introduce a broader audience to the Hough community and \u201cimprove the economics\u201d of the community, which helps with public safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to be a part of revitalizing it,\u201d Frazier explained. \u201c(Mansfield) wanted people to know that Cleveland is a city to take note of. It\u2019s a city that should be appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite having no previous knowledge about growing grapes, let alone operating a vineyard and winery, the Fraziers made the vision come to life in their own way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vineyard grows two kinds of grapes. The red grapes (Frontenac) are a French group hybrid. The white grapes (Traminette) produce wines described as floral, spicy and suited best for cooler climates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no fence around the vineyard. Their fiercest intruders are the deer roaming the area and spotted lanternflies, deterred by a perimeter of chicken wire and green bug nets, respectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Human visitors are welcome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe like the fact that we are a destination,\u201d Frazier said. \u201cPeople come from everywhere.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frazier said she hopes that visitors take away an appreciation for the grapevines and time outdoors. \u201cWe need to be more appreciative of what we can get from the earth, and we need to take care of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Aamina Edwards and Laila Dyer NABJ JSHOP Reporters When you search \u201cHough Neighborhood Cleveland\u201d on Google, you\u2019re met with headlines like, \u201cChild Stabbed in Cleveland\u2019s Hough Neighborhood&#8221; or \u201c22-year-old man murdered in Hough.\u201d But <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/chateau-hough-provides-wine-and-peace-in-rugged-cleveland-neighborhood\/\" title=\"Ch\u00e2teau Hough provides wine and peace in rugged Cleveland neighborhood\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[445],"class_list":{"0":"post-3965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jshop-2025","8":"tag-jshop25"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}