Winemaker Gary Andrus Dies

Pine Ridge Winery co-founder Gary Andrus, 63,  died  Friday in Hillsboro, Ore. of complications from pneumonia. He also founded two Oregon wineries, Archery Summit Estate  and Gypsy Dancer

According to an obituary by The Wine Spectator’s Harvey Steiman, Andrus was a former Olympic downhill skier and an avid trout fisherman” who “started making wine at Pine Ridge in Napa Valley in 1978 and at Archery Summit in Oregon’s Dundee Hills in 1993, both in partnership with his then-wife, Nancy. He divested his interests in both wineries in 2001 when they divorced, but reemerged in 2004 with Gypsy Dancer Estates, which he started in 2002 with his new wife, Christine.

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