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Hess Collection: Three Cabernets

Hess Collection: Three Cabernets

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Fredric Koeppel
May 29, 2011
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The roots of The Hess Collection go back to 1844, when Johann Heinrich Hess founded a brewery in Berne, Switzerland. Beer remained the primary business for the company until Johann's great-grandson Donald Hess took over the family concern at the age of 20 and, in the 1960s, took the business in the direction of bottled water, creating the Valser brand. …

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