Richard Sherwin, owner of the original LyttonSprings, was a publishing mogul down in the LA area. He published a wine magazine in the mid-late '70's titled
Wine World. A mag I wrote an article or two for.
And I was pretty active on the
WineWorld WebSite as well, stirring the pot as I've been known to do occasionally.
The Editor of
WineWorld was one DeeSindt. And she was drop-dead gorgeous...at least from the revealing pics that were published in the mag. She & I had several
encounters (not in person...via e-mail) on wine subjects. The most notable was my response to her blanket condemnation of the rain-besotted '72 vintage that none of them would
go out beyond 10 yrs or so. I claimed the Ridge MonteBello would easily go that length and probably 20 yrs or more. She pretty much raked me over the coals in defense of her
original claim, in print in
WineWorld.
A winemaker friend from the area was visiting Sherwin and Sindt down at his LA publishing site. As he waited for them to appear, he started poking around and observed
pallets of....porno magazines. He speculated that Sherwin made his money in the porno biz and that his wife, Dee, was one of his porno queens. I, of course, have never laid eyes
on such tawdry publications...so wouldn't know!!
So...now you know the rest of the story..as could only be told by TomHill.
Tom
I do the same with me sainted mother's "senior moments."