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Val du Vino
By KRISTINA HACKER
It was always a dream to have a winery, but I was an amateur for 35 years. —Mark Hoover
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ark Hoover, the new owner of Val du Vino Winery in Murphys, has had a love of winemaking from a very young age. A science lesson about fermentation in his fourth-grade class prompted the young man to try his own experiment. “I went home and I got a jar out of the cabinet and I took some
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Welch’s grape juice out of the refrigerator and I went and took some of my mom’s Fleischmanns baker’s yeast, put it in there and I stirred it up. I took it out to the garage and I forgot about it. And then about three days later, I remembered and I went out there and there was all this foamy stuff. It smelled really good. It was a smart thing I didn’t put the lid
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