Marge McConville started The Wine Steward LLC while working for a restaurant in the Chicago area. While presenting bottles of wine to customers for consumption, she created her first product which held the cork (or screwcap) to the bottle and also served as a drip collar. Not knowing that she was later serving a buyer for a major retailer, she joked about her desire to create a line of wine accessories that would be useful, yet fun. Within a month, her first product was on the shelf at 16 locations in Chicago.