Karen MacNeil's video: People to Know: David Adelsheim

David Adelsheim is the director of Adelsheim Vineyard, the Chehalem Mountains’ first winery, which he founded in 1971 with his former wife, Ginny Adelsheim. He majored in German literature in Frankfurt, Berlin, and at Portland State University, and worked in personnel management in the Army. Adelsheim has no formal training in viticulture but got advice from Oregon’s other early vintners before purchasing his original 19-acre parcel in Yamhill County, becoming part of the ten families to make wine in the Willamette Valley before 1980. His early winemaking experience included work at the experimental winery of the Lycée Viticole in Beaune, France, and at The Eyrie Vineyard in Oregon. Adelsheim was the first chairman of the Oregon Wine Board and has served as president of the Oregon Winegrowers Association. He was instrumental in getting Oregon State University to import clones from Burgundy, and met with scientists in France and Germany to persuade them to share their clones with Oregon winemakers. . . Subscribe to the best free newsletter on wine, WineSpeed http://bit.ly/WineSpeedSubscribe . . Check out more about Karen MacNeil by visiting her website http://bit.ly/KarenMacNeil . . The Wine Bible by Karen MacNeil. It's the best-selling wine book in the U.S. Buy it here! http://bit.ly/thewinebible