For example, ALHI once bought Chateau Elan, a 275-room boutique resort with a winery and golf course in Braselton, Georgia, for three days, temporarily renaming the hotel "Chateau ALHI" by changing all the signage.

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Also owns Delaire Graff Estate, a vineyard and winery with a boutique hotel and restaurant in Stellenbosch, the Napa Valley of South Africa, and an extensive modern and contemporary art collection.

FORBES: Laurence Graff

Devoting efforts to independent boutique wineries like Lokoya and Hartford Court owned with wife Barbara Banke and family, and to international winery efforts in Chile, Italy and Australia.

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