Retired Boeing engineer John Bell has poured his life savings into his new winery. After making wine as a hobby for many years as members of a Boeing wine club, several wannabe winemakers have joined the big league and are making commercial wines in Washington State. John Bell is one of the more recent Boeing employees to take the plunge, though his venture is more like a jump off the high-diving board. Bell, a former 747 program engineer for the Boeing Company, retired in September 2004 before grape crush, after trying to juggle both his engineering job and winemaking duties […]
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