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Article: James Hangstefer, owned wine shop in Waltham
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 15, 2009
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As an electrical engineer, James B. Hangstefer spent much of his
life in the world of radar, sonar, and semiconductor diodes - heady
stuff for the uninitiated. But in 1973, he changed course and became
a wine expert, traveling with his wife, Lucie, to vineyards around
the world to stock their Waltham shop, the Winecellar of Silene. The
Winecellar was described by the publisher of the Winchester-based
Quarterly Review of Wines, Richard L. Elia, in its upcoming issue
as "the Sorbonne of our wine learning."
"When Greater Boston was drinking just beer and whisky in the
1970s," Elia wrote, "and when few cared about wine, the person most
responsible for educating, purifying, and edifying our ...