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...Nancy W. Heitz Crestwood...
...Louis (New York City's in The Bronx is at least bigger); that the Beast at King's Island in Ohio is the wildest roller coaster (over Coney Island's Cyclone?); that the premier Cabernet Sauvignon wine comes from the Napa Valley's Heitz Cellars (some might award this prize to the Robert Mondavi reserve...
...know a Chardonnay grape from a supermarket Thompson Seedless. Americans using the Pinot Noir grape of Burgundy have yet to make a red wine that is remotely equal to its ancestor in body and authority. Many California wines, particularly the often overpraised Zinfandels, lack finesse and balance. Some, like Heitz Martha...
...small estates that have started up in the past two decades. They are owned by engineers and airline pilots, big businessmen and corporations. Most of the bottles shipped by such wineries as Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Chappellet, Santa Ynez, Burgess, Joseph Swan, Sanford & Benedict, J. Lohr, Keenan, Heitz and Chateau St. Jean are instant sellouts-often at higher prices than comparable French, Italian or German vintages. A tasting...
...Heitz has turned down a fistful of offers to sell out to big companies. He prefers to live out an American ideal, working with his family, building his own enterprise. Says Heitz, brown eyes squinting in the California sun: "Alice and I started this business knowing that we would have fewer dollars to spend than if I continued working for somebody else." Some day they will leave to their heirs a company that is worth several millions. As small producers commonly say, "We live fairly poor, but we die fairly rich...