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Vineyards Forever

The Wine Edition

Spring / Summer 2004

Andy Beckstoffer owns property all over Napa Valley. His acres are all planted to vines, and he has entered an unusual agreement to make sure they stay that way.

Andy Beckstoffer, perhaps Napa Valley’s best known grapegrower, wants the bulk of his 1,000-plus acres of grapevines to remain farmland forever. “The alternative is houses,” he said last week while sitting in his expansive Rutherford office on a cold afternoon, fog visible on the nearby Vaca range. Beckstoffer owns vineyards just about everywhere in Napa...