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A Victorian beauty builds Guenoc image. (Lillie Langtry, former owner of 4,600 acres of Guenoc Valley and whose portrait adorns label of Guenoc wines)
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Wines & Vines
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October 1, 1991| Author:
Hiaring, Philip
| COPYRIGHT 1991 Hiaring Company. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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A Victorian beauty builds Guenoc image
The old and the new often are kissing cousins in the winegrowing business. But Wines & Vines would be hard-pressed to find a better example of this close kinship than in the Guenoc Estate in California.
The guiding force is Orville Magoon, whose family has owned the 23,000-acre (that's 30 square miles) for 30 years. Six thousand acres are in the northeast corner of the Napa Valley appellation, the rest is in Lake County in ...
