Tracy Smith
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48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
He decided to leave Minnesota, where he had an unglamorous mold removal business, and become a Napa Valley wine entrepreneur.
48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
Miles Davis is an electrician who worked for Dahl almost from the beginning of his time in Napa.
48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
You were friends with him initially when he was doing what business?
48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
That's one way of saying Dahl was in the lower end of the wine business.
48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
He was bottling no-name wine, making what they call shiners.
48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
So the wine didn't even have to really be that good.
48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
And you knew enough to know that he didn't know a lot.
48 Hours
Grapes of Wrath
Dahl had moved to wine country with his wife and three children.
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Grapes of Wrath
Within a couple of years, his bottling business was a big success, and Dahl liked to show it.