Last Call: The European Aura of Biltmore Estate

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Issue: December 15, 1995

December 15, 1995 Last Call The European Aura of Biltmore Estate By Kim Marcus The Appalachian foothills of North Carolina seem an unlikely place for one of the East Coast's largest wineries, but then George Washington Vanderbilt was, to say the least, an unusual man.

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