Chuck and Shirley Coury came to Oregon around the same time as David Lett. Chuck and David had been at U.C. Davis during the 1962/63 school year and travelled together the next year in France. They shared a nursery planting near Corvallis, and both purchased land for their vineyards. David Adelsheim interviewed their son, Charley, at David Hill Winery near Forest Grove on October 16, 2020. They sat in the midst of vines planted by Charley’s father in 1966, when Chuck and Shirley owned this historic vineyard site.
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