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Article: Where wine country began: Sonoma, California.(Agoston Haraszthy)(Biography)
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- Sunset
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- November 1, 2006
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I'VE MADE THE TRIP four times now, so I can tell you precisely what you see from the hill. A chalk white house. The steep hillside patterned by grapevines. Beyond, the Sonoma Valley, looking like something edible, the season's last sweet fruit. It has a good view, the kingdom of Agoston Haraszthy, where California's Wine Country began.
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To answer the first question, you say "HAIR-is-tee." Or, if you find that taxing, try Agoston. "He was constantly developing new ideas," Brian McGinty says. As Agoston's great-great-grandson and his biographer, McGinty is a fan. But even he may understate his ancestor's energies. A PowerPoint ...