Word: vintner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Susan Shand, a journalist in Washington, needed wine for a dinner party she was hosting, she headed for the store to buy her favorite brand: Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Later that evening, however, she discovered that she had bought Turning Leaf, a new Gallo wine, instead. "I looked like an idiot," she recalls...
...petit faux pas, at worst, certainly nothing to make a federal case out of--unless you happen to be Jess Jackson. The burly lawyer turned winemaker created a new market segment with Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. When mistakes are made like Shand's, he believes it's because Turning Leaf's owner, industry giant E. & J. Gallo Winery, has unfairly copied his bottle design. So Jackson is suing Gallo, claiming it has co-opted sales of his category-topping Vintner's Reserve. Gallo disputes the charges, but there is no disputing Turning Leaf's rousing success. It shot...
...FRANCISCO: A federal jury put aside the wrath of grape magnate Jess Jackson, denying winery Kendall-Jackson's claim that industry giant E&J Gallo deliberately copied its bottle. The suit matched two of California's most stubborn and litigious vintners, Jackson and Ernest Gallo, over whether Gallo's Turning Leaf Chardonnay was designed to cleverly imitate the look (and sales success) of Kendall Jackson's top-selling Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Indeed, with its flanged top, visible cork and yellowing grape leaf, Gallo's bottle looks remarkably similar. It's been similar in the stores, as well: in just...
BORN: June 20, 1955, Mariposa EDUCATION: California State Polytechnic U, B.S., 1978 FAMILY: Single RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Vintner POLITICAL CAREER: Mariposa County Board of Supervisors, 1989-92; sought Republican nomination for U.S. House, 1992; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: 2037 West Bullard, No. 240, Fresno...
...starting a wine business. Now he has coughed up more than $9 million for the place next door and reunited the historic Inglenook estate. "Winemaking is like movies," he says. "You start with material that's not 100% in your control; then you refine what you get." The vintner is also enjoying a good year onscreen: he produced the just released Don Juan DeMarco and My Family, which opens next month, and later this year he will direct a "warm fable" starring Robin Williams...