He leaves Brights Wines Limited, Niagara Falls, Canada, as the company's Director of Viticultural Research, and a very special employee for more than 46 years.

George has achieved a number of distinctions. He is the only Canadian to have received the prestigious Award of Merit from the American Wine Society. He was honored by the society in 1979 "for his achievements bringing into commercial production vinifera and hybrid varieties in North Eastern America, and his leadership in establishing the first successful vineyard of pure vinifera varieties in the northeast growing area of this continent."

In 1984, George became the first living Canadian to have a wine named after him by a major winery - Brights Hostetter Trockenweiss.

Wine experts credit George and his predecessor at Brights, Adhemar de Chaunac, with revolutionizing the Canadian wine industry through their experimenting with North American and European grape varieties and hybrids.

The result of their work has been a North American grape-growing industry producing world-class wines.

On top of all this, George is a warm, friendly and helpful man - a man with whom you love to share a glass of good wine.

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