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Simon Mead as Gus: Manager of the vines and physical 'grunt' of the Oakley vineyard. Cohen Holloway as Vic Grimes: A local lawyer managing the sale of Oakley Vineyard and also a small time winemaker and husband of Nic Grimes. Carrie Green as Nic Grimes: a clay sculptor with a quest to improve her fertility and have a child.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Under long-time winemaker Ric Forman (later of Abreu Vineyards), they released California's first vintage-dated Merlot. [3] The Coca-Cola Company bought the winery in 1977, in a short-lived attempt to enter the wine market. Seagram bought the winery in 1982, and was in turn purchased by Diageo in 2001. [2]
Founded in 1876, Beringer Vineyards is "the oldest continuously operating winery in the Napa Valley", and is listed under both the National Register of Historic Places [1] and as a California Historical Landmark. [2] In 1934 it was the first California winery to offer public tours and wine tasting following the repeal of Prohibition. [3]
The winery's second release sold out in 16 hours, and the following year sales were staggered, with repeat customers first on the list. [6] SFGate said in 2008 that Scarecrow had a yearly output of around 400 cases, calling it a cult wine similar to the Screaming Eagle winery. [6] At that time, it remained owned by Bret Lopez and Mimi DeBlasio.
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The winery was purchased by international conglomerate Heublein Inc., in 1969. [4] Heublein was later acquired by RJR Nabisco , then sold to Grand Metropolitan in 1987. Grand Metropolitan became Diageo plc in 1997 through a merger with Guinness , [ 5 ] and is now the largest multinational beer, wine and spirits company in the world.