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Wine Country Strong

IN 1932, NEWLYWED WINSOME HOSKINS named the apple orchard she’d just bought with her husband, Edgar, after a character in Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde. She dubbed it Brangayne, after Isolde’s handmaiden Brangäne, who prepares a love potion for the titular characters. But Winsome couldn’t have known that almost a century later, after the apples were slowly replaced with grapes, a different kind of potion would be serendipitously magicked up on the same rolling hills: wine.

“Why she chose

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