Colby Red

Full and lush taste with velvety texture and rich plum and spice; dense, clean and nicely made; a percentage of proceeds go to heart disease. Once recuperated, he began to join fund-raising efforts on behalf of heart research in hopes that eventually other youngsters wouldn't have to face what he'd endured. At one such event he raised $1,000 by charging participants to see him raise his shirt and expose his chest scar.The "Colby" of Colby Red is Colby Rex Groom, a 13-year-old who lives with his father and mother, Daryl and Lisa Groom, in Healdsburg. Colby was born with a hole in his heart. Early on, it didn't seem to much hamper his development, and practically seemed to heal itself.

When he was 8, however, doctors discovered that he had a defective valve, and he underwent his first open-heart surgery. That operation didn't work out as well as everyone involved had hoped, and eight months later he went through another open-heart surgery, this time to have a mechanical heart valve installed.