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The American Vineyard Foundation (AVF) honors Mr. Fred T. Franzia, CEO of the Bronco Wine Company and a founding member of the AVF in 1979. Fred has served continuously on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the organization since its establishment, and was a major force shaping its success. Fred and other influential industry leaders joined together to form the AVF with the vision of creating an innovative, collaborative funding model for the wine industry in support of viticulture and enology research. Since its founding, the AVF has raised and contributed over $33,000,000 to grape and wine research in the US.
It would be fair to describe the great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy as a Renaissance man, although he may have had a more somber viewpoint than many.
Born on June 2, 1840, near the market town of Dorchester, England, and son of a stonemason and builder, Hardy lacked the funds to pursue a top-tier education. Instead, he learned architecture, for which he exhibited prodigious skill. In 1862, he enrolled in Kingâs College in London, where he won prizes from the Royal Institute of British Architects and others for his work on a church and railway station.
With his plebian upbringing, Hardy never felt comfortable with the social class divisions evident in London, and he moved back to Dorset after five years. He designed and built the red brick Queen Anne-style home called Max Gate, where he lived until his death in 1928. It is now managed by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest.
Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin was a woman ahead of her time. Born in 1777 to wealthy textile industrialist and politician Ponce Jean Nicolas Philippe Ponsardin in Reims, France, she grew up in the luxurious Hotel Ponsardin where her next-door neighbors were the Clicquot family.
Philippe Clicquot ran a successful textile business in competition with the Ponsardins. In an effort to eliminate competition, the two fathers arranged for the 21-year-old Barbe-Nicole to marry the young Francois Clicquot in 1798, thus amalgamating the two businesses.
Although the marriage was arranged, Barbe-Nicole and Francois hit it off and developed an interest in wine, which both families dabbled in as a side business. Their love of wine did not translate into success, and the business struggled financially early. In 1805, young Francois succumbed to typhoid fever, leaving Barbe-Nicole a widow at 28. Veuve is the French word for widow, so Barbe-Nicole became known as the Widow Clicquot, or Veuve Clicquot.
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