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Article: Wine -- Vineyards for the Generations -- Walla Walla's Hendricks family started it all with Seven Hills
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- May 14, 2003
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STORY AND PHOTOS BY THOMAS P. SKEEN
BLETHEN FAMILY NEWSPAPERS
WALLA WALLA - Puffy clouds graze across a spring sky over the
Walla Walla Valley and herd together on the still snowy peaks of the
Blue Mountains to the east.
It's the kind of day Scott Hendricks and his dad used to enjoy on
scouting trips to explore the valley's jigsaw-puzzle terrain for its
prospects of growing grapes.
Outside the family farmhouse of his Windrow Vineyards on this
recent day, the 51-year-old Hendricks studies shoots emerging from an
old, gnarled cabernet sauvignon vine. With the reverence of a proud
father, he makes a point of saying the vine and other Methuselahs in
rows around it have survived three winters of ...