Vintage kluge: remarried, rusticated and still very rich, Patricia Kluge reinvents herself as a world-class wine maker. (Eye).

W, May, 2003 by Haskell, Robert

There are two big names in Charlottesville, Virginia. The first, and holiest, belongs to Thomas Jefferson; Monticello lies only a few miles from the center of town, where people still piously say "Mr. Jefferson" when they refer to the third president of the United States-as if he were a local grandee walking the paved streets. Charlottesville's other big name is Kluge. It is chiseled into the edifices of museums and hospitals, and it looms from the iron gates of Albemarle House, Patricia Kluge's lush, 1,300-acre estate in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Lately, Mrs. Kluge has done her bit to bridge the gap between Charlottesville's two sovereign families. She regards Kluge Estate, the vineyard whose first grape she planted four years ago at...

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