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HONORING SMALL BUSINESSES
years, and laugh and on our laurels, content with what’s
eat and talk together been done, not so long that we’re
as old friends. I was uninterested in innovation and
taken by surprise, and originality.
entirely delighted, by
the tangible atmosphere When all of us retell the story of the
of love, support, and beginnings of Adelphos Cellars to
community I felt in Mr. the children and grandchildren of the
Newsom’s barn; there family many years from now, it will
was an incredible sense largely be a story about the struggle
of the deep conviction which was the defining characteristic
that “we are all in this of our first years. But we are
together.” In listening the sweat we have shed in growing reminded of the age-old adage that
to the conversation between my them. vines need to struggle in order to
dad, brother, neighboring vineyard The growing Texas wine industry produce great fruit. The same is true
owner, and a Brownfield grower serves as a strong point of pride for for us. When everything is perfect,
with whom they have been friends all of us who have been involved in we don’t reach, we don’t dig deeper,
for more than a decade, I could hear these efforts. We’re like a second- we don’t strive. We grow when we
in their words the understanding generation family now, who have struggle, just like the vines. And
that, when I suffer, my brother been doing what we’re doing long even in years when there’s not much
growers suffer with me. We labor enough to get pretty good at it, long fruit, the fruit that there is, is good
in the vineyards and cellar rooms enough to pass a solid legacy of because it was born out of struggle.
together; we pray away the late hard work and pride down to the My parents are wonderful examples
spring frosts and summer hail “young ‘uns” who will take over, of this principle, and I am proud of
together; and we rejoice together just as my parents have done; but all that they have accomplished and
over a good harvest and a great not so long that of the people they are.
bottle of wine, which is the product we’re resting
of the grapes we have grown and
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