Su hua newton biography

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She is an extraordinary lady—a winemaker and doctor of medicine, with qualifications in every subject imaginable.
Peter Newton, who had previously co-founded Sterling Vineyards, founded Newton Vineyard in 1977 with his wife, Su Hua. Originally one.

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Newton Vineyard

Newton Vineyard is prestigious hillside estate featuring excellent wines, formal English style gardens (with a slight Asian flair), exceptional views of Napa Valley and two wine caves. The famed American wine writer Robert Parker once called this winery “one of the most gorgeous mountain estates in California”.

The winery was founded in 1977 by the late Peter Newton (native of England, died in 2008) who also founded Napa’s only “tram” winery, Sterling Vineyards. The first vintage was from 1979, a Merlot produced the same year the winery was built; the first three vintages of Newton were produced from purchased grapes. Peter was one of the Napa Valley’s post Prohibition pioneer winery owners. He moved to San Francisco in 1950 to follow a journalism career for The Financial Times. He soon was a successful businessman, having founded San Francisco based Sterling International in 1951 whose products focused on tissue paper. He was not the last one to come to Napa Valley whose career was built around paper products – refere

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Peter Newton (vintner)

English-born American winemaker (1926–2008)

Peter Leigh Newton (27 August 1926 – 4 February 2008) was an English-American vintner, the founder of Sterling Vineyards and Newton Vineyard.^[1]

Early life

Peter Leigh Newton was born in London on 27 August 1926,^[1] the son of racing driver Frank Newton (who won the Montagu Cup in 1908 at Brooklands). He and his brother Kenneth were educated at Charterhouse School. He earned a law degree from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1949.^[1]^[2] Newton served in the British Army Rifle Corps during World War II.^[3]

Career

Newton became a journalist with the Financial Times by chance, after writing a letter to the editor of the newspaper with "his views on the nationalisation of the UK iron and steel industry", and the newspaper offered him a job.^[1]^[2] In 1950, he was posted to San Francisco, California, as their West Coast correspondent.^[1] In 1951, he founded his first business, Sterling International, a San Francisco who

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Newton Vineyard: A Wine Country Garden

The first Napa Valley vineyards and gardens date back to the 1860s when settlers from France, Italy, and Germany staked their claims and plowed the ground by hand and horse. They also, in the process, layered the land with their cultural DNA, thereby adding an immediate Old World dimension to the frontier. Building on this foundation, Newton—the Oxford-educated former newspaper writer, paper manufacturer, and lifelong amateur garden designer—purchased 560 mountaintop acres in the Mayacamas Mountains, and carved out vineyards and gardens. Newton, with his love of natural beauty and things English and continental, and wanting to add Chinese notes to the symphony, drew a landscape incorporating all of the above. His daughter, Gail Showley, once told the San Francisco Chronicle, “He loved wine and he loved gardens. I remember lying in the dirt with him, with a string, trying to figure out where to plant something or put the box hedges.”

Drive into Newton Vineyard and you’re met by a jaunty red British phone booth accompanied by a sleek, rusty-red