Dorothy Tchelistcheff, widow of arguably California’s greatest winemaker and an integral part of her husband’s broad impact on the entire American wine industry for decades, died Thanksgiving afternoon after enjoying a festive Napa lunch with two granddaughters. She was 99.
To make cabernet sauvignon like they did in the 1980s, it helps to have been around since then. You would have to be someone like, say, Joel Aiken, who in 1982 became Beaulieu Vineyards youngest winemaker.
There are few winemakers who have a success story that can top that of Daniel and Georges Daou, brothers whose eternal bond formed in war-torn Lebanon as kids and held together through challenges first in France and then the United States. Their success story is one of remarkable perseverance, defiance and self-confidence.
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