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Bob Landon didn't seem destined to become a Texas winemaker.

Born in Kansas City, he was raised in a small Missouri town near Hannibal – "Mark Twain country" – with a childhood shaped by a schoolteacher mother and a Southern Baptist preacher father. But a seventh-grade class experiment changed everything.

"Our science teacher taught us how to ferment grape juice into wine," Landon told Fox News Digital.

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"And I'm sure that's illegal today, but I remember tasting my experiment. I loved it. It's like, 'Oh, I love wine.' I went home and I asked my parents, 'Can I make wine at the house?' And they said, 'You can make it in the garage.'"

He was 12 years ol

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