Walter Stephen Taylor
American winemaker (1931–2001)
📍 Rochester, New York USA
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Walter Stephen Taylor was an American winemaker and vineyard owner in the Finger Lakes region of New York. A fourth-generation grape grower and third-generation winemaker, he founded Bully Hill Vineyards in Hammondsport, New York, after leaving an executive position at the Taylor Wine Company, the firm his grandfather had founded. Taylor was known for his public criticism of the practice of blending out-of-state bulk wine and imported grape concentrate into New York wines, and for a prolonged trademark dispute with Taylor Wine Company after its 1977 acquisition by the Coca-Cola Company, which
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