5/22/2023 0 Comments The wine bible by karen macneilSo we hired consultants and we read and took classes.” “We both took French in college, but we weren’t fluent. “I was an art major, Stephen was a business major-neither of us had a formal education in winemaking and wine-growing,” Adams says. That led to annual return visits and the eventual purchase of Château Fonplégade, a winery in the Saint-Émilion region of Bordeaux. “We discovered that we had a love for wine in common,” Denise says, “and antiques, and paintings, and so we spent a lot of time in France,” renting a French chateau for a month after they were married. (In 2009, Adams, who graduated from Yale in 1959, donated $100 million to the Yale School of Music, the largest gift by far that the institution had ever received, making the school tuition-free for all its students.) Denise met Stephen Adams, a businessman and private equity investor who amassed a fortune through investments in banking, television, radio, advertising, and more.
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