Word: healdsburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned over his asphalt business to his son and founded Oakville Vineyards in the Napa Valley, a prime wine area north of San Francisco. Russell Green gave up his $100,000-a-year job as president of Signal Oil & Gas Co. to buy the sleepy Simi Winery Co. in Healdsburg. Both Switzerland's Nestlé and Connecticut's Heublein purchased Napa Valley wineries last year. Though it can take a decade to reap any return from new vines, Widmer's Wine Cellars of New York, now controlled by mustard-making R.T. French Co., is spending...