Seven years after landing his first faculty job, and a year after securing tenure, Andrew Hendry earned his first year-long sabbatical, a precious respite from teaching and administrative duties that only comes around a few times in one’s career. Last summer, Hendry, a McGill University evolutionary ecologist who studies speciation dynamics, packed up the car, and—together with his wife, two young daughters, and two cats—drove across the continent to spend the year at Hendry Ranch Wines, a vineyard in Napa Valley, Calif., that has been owned and operated by Hendry’s family since 1939.
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Although Hendry decided to carve out a unique, family-oriented sabbatical, it hasn’t been all wine tastings and horseback-riding adventures. “It’s really been as intense a working experience as I’ve ever had,” he says. He wrote countless grants and papers, traveled extensively for field work ...
