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The Hero of Her Own Story

Apr 10, 2026 | Wine Producers

By Karen MacNeil

 

She thought she’d stay in France. After Château Haut-Brion, why think of being anyplace else? Wine, she felt, was in her core. From the age of 14, she knew she wanted to be a winemaker. She could not not make wine. And interning at a First Growth château in Bordeaux? Not bad for a young woman from South America who, when she showed up at an agricultural school in France, couldn’t even speak French.

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