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Nancy Knowles Parker, a native of New York State
where her grandfather grew grapes, began her
newspaper career on the Washington Evening Star and
then the Newark Evening News where she met her
husband of 50 years, Cortlandt Parker. Together they
started a chain of weekly/community newspapers in
New Jersey. She then started a quarterly newspaper
for the New England wine region called the New
England Wine Gazette. There are now four wine
newspaper, the New England Wine Gazette, the Finger
Lakes Wine Gazette, the Long Island Wine Gazette and
the Virginia Wine Gazette. She is publisher of the
wine publication and Publisher emeritus of the
community newspapers which are now run by two of her
children, Elizabeth Parker and Stephen W. Parker.
Another son, Cortlandt Parker is living with his
wife and family in Florida and her youngest daughter
Nancy is the General Manager of the winery and lives
with her husband and family in Boston, MA. She
serves on the board of the Colonial Dames and the
Newport Garden Club. She has 14 grandchildren
including two step grandchildren.
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Nancy Parker Wilson |
Nancy Parker Wilson has been
General Manager for Greenvale Vineyards since she,
her husband and parents embarked on this enterprise
in 1992. A graduate of Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT, she moved to Boston after graduation
and became the Director of Public Information for
the two Boston area Zoos, Stone Zoo and Franklin
Park Zoo. After five years she became an Account
Executive at a Boston area public relations company,
Clarke and Company, where she led the Community
Relations program for the Prudential Property
Company, Coors Beer and helped to develop the
opening of Domain Home Furnishings. With the onset
of children, she started her own community relations
company which included accounts such as the Zoos,
Prudential, the Boston Foundation/Greenspace
Alliance and other Boston based organizations. An
avid preservationist, Nancy served as a Landmarks
Commissioner for her neighborhood, the South End for
eight years. She presently serves on the board of
the South End Historical Society, Aquidneck Land
Trust, Rhode Island Center for Agricultural
Promotion and Education and on the Collections
Committee for the Preservation Society of Newport
County and the Steering Committee for the
Seminarians, a Boston based group of collectors of
American Decorative Arts. Mrs. Wilson has three
children, Bennett who is at Wesleyan University,
Billy who is at Lawrenceville School in new Jersey
and and Parker who attends Boston Latin. Mrs. Wilson
has two step daughters, Emily Wilson of New York
City and Jessica Wilson of San Francisco and one
grandchild, Lucas.
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William F. Wilson
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William F. Wilson of Boston is
President of Wilson Architects an architectural
practice recognized for designing and building
beautiful college and university buildings with a
specialty in the sciences. Recently he has been
traveling to Spain and Ireland to plan and design Nano Laboratories. Other clients include Vanderbilt
University, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, Duke University and University of Chicago.
Bill graduated from Harvard College and Harvard’s
Graduate School of Design. Prior to starting his
medium sized practice he was a 25 year employee and
Principle at Payette Associates also of Boston. The
Wilson’s have lived in the south end for 25 years
and have had a chance to work on two residences
there. The Stable Restoration is a great example of
Historic Preservation. Bill is on the board of the
Preservation Society of Newport County. Though he is
not able to spend much time presently at Greenvale
during the week, he is at Greenvale most weekends.
Bill has five children already listed above.
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Richard Carmichael
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Richard Carmichael joined
Greenvale Vineyards as Winemaker in 1997. Prior to
Greenvale he had been the Assistant Winemaker at the
Williamsburg Winery in Williamsburg Virginia.
Richard graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree
in Enology from California State University at
Fresno and was a winemaker in California for a
number of years before moving back East. Richard
joined Greenvale so that he would have the
opportunity to work in the Vineyards and in the
Winery which allowed him to see the grapes from the
beginning to when in the bottle and being poured. He
has been critical to the successful development of
Greenvale as a grower to Greenvale as the producer
of excellent estate grown wines. Richard’s wines
have repeatedly won golds and double golds in major
competitions. Richard lives with his wife Maggie
Jones in Newport.
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Hever Ortega joined Greenvale
Vineyards in 1992 as an assistant in the Vineyards.
He was promoted to Vineyard Manager in 1994. In
1992, Hever had just moved from Guatamala and had
been hired by Cortlandt Parker to assist in our new
venture. Hever became a United States citizen in
2002. Hever, who fortunately grew up on a cattle
farm is not only great with the 24000 vines planted
here, but with our two Scottish highland and in
overall beautification and landscaping. Hever live
with his wife and son in Providence. His assistant
is Victor Gonzales who joined Greenvale in 2004.
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Marc Guillotte joined Greenvale
as Sales Manager in 2005. Formerly in the Restaurant
business, Marc has a very clear understanding of
what it takes to sell wine and has helped to develop
a great relationship with wine shops and restaurants
in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Marc is very
knowledgeable about wines from around the world and
has an excellent understanding of what it takes to
make fine wines in many different regions. Marc
lives with his wife and two daughters in Warwick, RI
where he is active in many of his childrens programs
and athletic endeavors.
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We have a great team of people in the tasting room, wonderful pack of dogs who
are featured throughout our website and our Scottish Highland Steer, Burberry
and McIntosh
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