Word: hesse
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...that she really began to achieve her childhood ambition. That's when she started taking classes in viticulture, cleared land she had bought on Mount Veeder in California's Napa Valley and applied for permits to start a vineyard. Now 60, Chu has just sold her second crop to Hess winery. Next year she expects to turn a profit. The little girl who wanted to be a farmer has finally grown up, and it's only fitting that the grapes that made her dream come true are late-ripening Cabernet, which, she points out, improve with time. The difficult mountainside...