Why would an international corporate executive and his wife build a 90 acre wine estate in the rural Dry creek Valley of Sonoma County, California??? We love the West and Northern California is the best of the West, quips Henry Wendt, who, when he is not walking the rows of his Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Zinfandel, is busy as Chairman of the Board of SmithKline Beecham, a multi-bil