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LIVING THE DREAM
by Robert Whitley
November 27 , 2007

       Stop me if you've heard this one ... 

A successful businessman buys a piece of land in the California wine country. After a few years he decides to plant grapes. By and by a winery is born.

The daughter, with a business degree from a prestigious Ivy League school, is charged with running the enterprise. She hires a top-gun winemaker and wins accolades from admiring critics.

The story line is nearly as old as the redwoods that surround Rebecca Green Birdsall's remote vineyard in the Deep End district of Mendocino County's Anderson Valley. It is the California dream. You either live it or admire/envy those who do.

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