BONUS: Catch up with HHOF'er Alex Delvecchio, who was keeping busy in retirement! Part of the famed 'Production Line' alongside teammates Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay, the trailblazer for the original players' association, Delvecchio gives fans a look at his post-career business venture.

After retirement in 2005, Val was able to pursue his love of wine through opening a family operated vineyard alongside his wife, Candace Cameron, named Bure Family Wines, operated in Napa Valley, California. 

"I started working during the harvest," Bure explained to NHL.com. "That's when it clicked in my head that this is what I really wanted to do after hockey. The excitement of picking the grapes from the vine. The excitement of sorting the fruit. The excitement of seeing the wine in the barrels.

"When our customers send us pictures of them drinking our wine on vacation skiing, say, or at a family celebration, it's a connection you build... That's, to me, what wine is all about: Family, connection."

For Bure, family is of the upmost importance and one of the elements he has woven into the business. The wine label used by the company is an homage to Bure's watchmaking great-grandfather, blending a version of the family crest featuring a bird – and nod to Bure's first passion – a hockey stick.

Bure's family-centric vision includes his extended hockey family too. Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews was a recent visitor at the Napa Valley vineyard, and was taken aback by Bure's passion for the process.

But if you'd like to get your hands on one of his bottles, you'll have to wait. There is a two-year waiting list to sip on a bottle from one of the 700 cases produced a year.

You can read more about the Bure family vineyard, and about the time he spends coaching his sons Lev and Maksim, here. 

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