Tucker Cellars FINDS NICHE: Sunnyside, Washington, winery supplies wineries across the nation

摘要

Third-generation wine grape grower Randy Tucker has made wine in Washington's Yakima Valley for 30 years. Through the decades, he's changed business plans at Tucker Cellars to fine-tune the winery's market niche, but he's now facing one of the biggestchanges as he approaches retirement. Randy's grandparents Melvin and Vera Tucker moved from Nebraska after the Depression to the Yakima Valley, where they sharecropped wine and table grapes from 1933 to 1946 for Sunnyside's wine grape pioneer William Bridgman. Melvin obtained cuttings from Bridgman and planted European varieties under contract with Bridgman.