Top winemakers, enthusiasts to mingle at Lanai event

By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 02, 2012

~~<p>As a high school teen in Northern California, Ted Henry remembers walking down the aisles in the liquor section of neighborhood grocery stores, admiring the labels on wine bottles and reading all the information that was on them. Although he wasn't of legal drinking age, he already had a nose for fine wine.</p>
<p>"The complexities of wine fascinated me, and the artwork on the labels was fantastic," said Henry, who has been making wine in Napa Valley for 14 years. "There were several aisles of wines, probably hundreds of choices, in the stores where I grew up — in San Ramon, about 40 miles north of Napa."</p>
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As a high school teen in Northern California, Ted Henry remembers walking down the aisles in the liquor section of neighborhood grocery stores, admiring the labels on wine bottles and reading all the information that was on them. Although he wasn't of legal drinking age, he already had a nose for fine wine.

"The complexities of wine fascinated me, and the artwork on the labels was fantastic," said Henry, who has been making wine in Napa Valley for 14 years. "There were several aisles of wines, probably hundreds of choices, in the stores where I grew up — in San Ramon, about 40 miles north of Napa." Login for more...