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Six-time
Winston/Nextel Cup winner Richard Childress is sitting in the driver’s seat of an enterprise not often associated with
NASCAR: a vineyard. Childress and business partner Greg Johns own Childress Vineyards, 65 acres of
wine country in Lexington, North Carolina, just a stone’s throw from his racing headquarters in Welcome.
While most don’t normally peg the NASCAR crowd as bouquet-sniffing pedants, Childress says that NASCAR’s
demographics are changing, and that a younger, more affluent audience is beginning to tune in. Perhaps that explains
the new Daytona 500 fragrance.
Either way, Childress joins fellow motorsports oenophiles like Mario
Andretti in the vintner’s circle.
[Source: AutoWeek]