Gold Medalist Peggy Flemming Makes Wine For A Good Cause

For one Olympic gold medalist, her latest business venture isn’t just about making money.

Former ice skater Peggy Fleming and her husband, retired dermatologist Greg Jenkins, started their own vineyard 10 years ago. As it flourishes Fleming says they just enjoy making wines that people like. And even though they are still a small boutique winery it’s more important to put out quality wine and experience all the best that wine has to offer.

“We’re making wines that we enjoy and we started out with chardonnay because that’s what we mainly drank back then and now I think the more you get into wine the more your pallet grows and the more different kinds of wines you like.”

When I ran into Fleming and her husband at a recent wine expo I learned that despite a gold medal in the 1968 Olympics Fleming has an even bigger accomplishment under her belt. She is a breast cancer survivor and is using the wine she makes to help those in the same situation.

She donates a portion of the proceeds from every bottle of wine to support breast cancer research. With that knowledge in mind, perhaps you will enjoy your Fleming Jenkins wine even more.

(Brian Banmiller is a national Business Correspondent for CBS News Radio, free lance writer and public speaker. The former television business news anchor in San Francisco can be reached at brian@banmilleronbusiness.com .)