Growing Into Greatness

She stopped waiting for her father's blessing. She never stopped wanting his love.

Napa Valley, 1960. Sofia Russo is forty years old, alone in her cottage, swirling a glass of Pinot Noir from her own vines. It is, by any measure, extraordinary wine. And almost no one knows she made it.

In one week, she is expected to stand at the opening of the Russo family tasting room and deliver a speech honoring her father's life's work — a vineyard he has spent decades preparing to hand to her twin broth...