FUQUA Winery™
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Wines™
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We produce the wines that wine lovers love™
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Most
Award-Winning Winemaker in Texas
Lee Foster Fuqua founded Fuqua Wine Companies™.
Longtime wine enthusiast and fine wine
connoisseur, Lee sought
to expand and deepen his understanding of wines.
Lee did his
undergraduate work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas and then studied another three
years in the Professional Chef's curriculum at El Centro College in
Dallas before starting his studies at the
T.V. Munson
School of Viticulture and Enology. Lee has also studied advanced winemaking at Texas A & M
University organized classes in Bordeaux, France and in Tuscany, Italy.
In 1992 Lee was knighted by the very exclusive Ordre Ducal de la Croix de Bourgogne (Cross of Burgundy) in Dejon, France. He is now known as Chevalier Fouquet to his friends in Dijon. Lee is one of less than a hundred Americans ever knighted into the French Ordre Ducal de la Croix de Bourgogne.
Lee has been a prolific winemaker for more than 13 years and is now recognized as one of
the better winemakers in the United States. In
just a few years, Lee’s wines have won many medals and
awards in competitions, including many top awards. (see Awards)
One year, the competitions limit of six wines entered in the prestigious American Wine Society’s national competition were all finalists. Of the six, one won gold, two won silver and one took a bronze medal. In 2003 Lee has added many more medals in international and national competitions.
In
addition to Lee’s gifted abilities with wines, a tasting board has been established to ensure the highest quality product possible.
This tasting board comprises wine writers, wine retailers, wine
experts, local wholesalers and Duckworth Winery investors.
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Lee Foster Fuqua and his "better
half" of 23 years, Julia Guilford Hagmann
Fuqua. 
A
Grand Seneschal, a Chancellor and three Knights enjoy a little Kir at the Cross
of
Bourgogne headquarters in Dijon, France.
Front page, food section
photo from the Dallas
Morning News of Lee working on his wines in
their dinning room winery, before any of the real
wineries were established.
Romanée-Conti
Lee with world renowned viticulturists Dr. Richard Smart of Australia and Dr. George Ray McEachern of
Texas A&M at the T.V. Munson Center in Sherman. 
Lee
and famous winemaker, Don Brady, stop to celebrate Thanksgiving
Day at a small country inn in the French countryside near Bordeaux. 
