Hi dkrouskop!,
Thankyou so much for the feedback!
It is great to have your constructive critisism, especially being that you are a writer!
Would you be open to editing these back stories for me as I have always struggled with structuring sentences?
I can send you one of the Signature Edition Decks in exchange for you helping me if you like, plus if you also pledge to support my new decks on Kickstarter I will even match every deck that you pledge for on my Kickstarter by sending you an extra deck of the same type that you pledge for
I HAVE COPIED AND PASTED EACH OF THE BACK STORIES BELOW
Please feel free to edit these and send them back to me and I can send you some decks in exchange for you helping me
Look forward to your reply,
Best Regards,
Craig
Jack of Spades - Gustav Gustafsson (1879-1911)
From Switzerland.
Wise beyond his days, this entrepreneur purchased 120 acres of land in the Canton
of Valais, in the foothills of Southern Switzerland, to go on to establish a very
successful vinyard, by supplying some of the best grapes in the region to leading
wine producers throughout Switzerland.
Gustav’s visions for fame and fortune across the world for wine producing, led to a
partnership with Victor Van Rennes, who at the time had been making headlines
as a leading wine producer in Belgium. Together both Gustav and Victor went on
to expand on their success as wine producers by taking up a joint venture with
Sophia Van Den Berg, a leading wine producer from the Netherlands, where
together they became the founding partners of the Vintage Label Winery Estate,
which is know today the Vintage Label Winery, Brewery and Distillery, after since
expanding to become the leading producer and distributer of both wine, beer and
spirits worldwide.
The Vintage Label Winery, Brewery and Distillery is situated in Belgium and is
currently owned and operated by Craig Lewis Maidment, after being inherited by
his late step mother, Stella Louise Van Den Berg, daughter to parents Sophia Van
Den Berg and Victor Van Rennes.
There are numerous rumours that Stella Louise Van Den Berg’s father was Gustav
Gustafsson who is believed to have eloped with Stella’s mother Sophia just days
before his tragic passing while a passenger on board the SS Arabella, a steamship
which sank into the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean on the early hours of the
morning of the 16th of October 1911.
(Jack of Hearts illustration depicts the Gustafsson winery Estate, situated in the
Canton of Valais, in the foothills of Southern Switzerland).
Queen of Spades - Sophia Van Den Berg (1871-1946)
From the Netherlands.
Inherited one of the oldest vineyard estates in the Netherlands to continue with
the family tradition of producing premium quality wines using traditional
methods.
The Van Den Berg’s for many years produced limited quantities of high quality
wines from 100% hand picked estate grown fruit from its beautiful old vines.
At the turn of the century, Sophia Van Den Berg took up a joint venture with
Victor Van Rennes and Gustav Gustavsson in 1900 to establish the Vintage Label
Winery Estate in Belgium and together would they become the leading producers
and distributers of wine in the world.
Sophia Van Den Berg became pregnant with her first and only child (Stella Louise
Rennes) in October of 1911 before she went on to marry her business partner, Victor
Van Rennes, later that year.
Sophia’s daughter Stella Louise Rennes was born on July 16th 1912, and she would
later go on to inherit the Vintage Label Winery Estate after both her parents passing,
at which point she changed her name to Stella Louise Van Den Berg to take on her
mothers maiden name, as she despised her father Victor.
In the time leading up to Stella Van Den Bergs passing in 2001, she requested that
her step son, Craig Lewis Maidment inscribe the following words on her tombstone,
‘Stella Louise Gustafsson, in loving memory of the father I never knew’,
which confirmed the rumours at the time that Gustav Gustafsson was in fact Stella’s
biological father.
Set on the slopes above the valley floor, the Van Den Berg Estate is perfectly
positioned to grow premium quality cool climate grapes.
(Queen of Hearts illustration depicts the Van Den Berg Estate situated on it’s
picturesque hillside location in the province of Utrecht, in central Netherlands).
King of Spades - Victor Van Rennes (1857-1933)
From Belgium. Established the largest wine domain in Belgium before later going
into partnership with Gustav Gustasfsson and Sophia Van Den Berg to secure his
place as the leading producer of the finest quality wines worldwide, with the finest
grapes being supplied from Gustav Gustafsson’s vinyards in Switzerland and Sophia
Van Den Berg’s vinyards in the Netherlands.
Between Tongeren and Maastricht, along the old Roman roads, in the municipality
of Riemst, lies the largest winery estate in Belgium. This is not by accident, as the
Romans had already vineyards in
this area some 2000 years prior.
(King of Hearts illustration depicts the original Vintage Label Winery Estate that
was built in 1900. This Estate has since been upgraded to a larger, more grand
scale estate that now includes a brewery and a distillery, and is the number one
destination for wine enthusiasts around the world to travel annually, to sample the
most saught after wine flavours in the world.)
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