![]() ![]() So we hired consultants and we read and took classes.” “We both took French in college, but we weren’t fluent. ![]() “I was an art major, Stephen was a business major-neither of us had a formal education in winemaking and wine-growing,” Adams says. That led to annual return visits and the eventual purchase of Château Fonplégade, a winery in the Saint-Émilion region of Bordeaux. “We discovered that we had a love for wine in common,” Denise says, “and antiques, and paintings, and so we spent a lot of time in France,” renting a French chateau for a month after they were married. (In 2009, Adams, who graduated from Yale in 1959, donated $100 million to the Yale School of Music, the largest gift by far that the institution had ever received, making the school tuition-free for all its students.) Denise met Stephen Adams, a businessman and private equity investor who amassed a fortune through investments in banking, television, radio, advertising, and more. ![]()
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