With one exception: Jess Stonestreet Jackson, whose midpriced Kendall-Jackson bottlings are more familiar to Americans than the man behind them.
His Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay won the first double Platinum Award ever presented by the American Wine Competition.
Was she afraid this esprit de corps might end with the arrival of a big company like Kendall-Jackson?
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Longtime Kendall-Jackson winemaker Randy Ullom compared the buying binge to Mr. Jackson's expansionist phase from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s.
Southcorp talked to Beringer and, according to wine industry sources, has negotiated with Kendall-Jackson (see following story) and other California wineries.
Pierre, a Shanghai importer of wines, including Kendall-Jackson, Bollinger and Shafer.
Kendall-Jackson Winery has posted an obituary on their website.
The founder eventually took Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates south to Sonoma County, but a big part of his success was recognizing that California's "coastal" wine belt was a 480-kilometer-long affair.
Kendall-Jackson has had 18% annual unit-volume growth in the 1990s and a dollar market share in the highly fragmented chardonnay segment (60% of its sales) that dwarfs its nearest competitors.
Three decades after planting first 20 acres of grapes, onetime attorney has built Kendall-Jackson into one of America's most valuable wineries by offering blended chardonnays and other varietals appealing to affluent masses.
Mr. Steele was the much-heralded creator of Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay but left fame and fortune behind when he moved to Lake County and opened a decidedly low-key place of his own.
In 2009, with BDA's assistance, he found a team of wine experts to help him realize his vision, including winemaker Tom Hinde, who had made wines for Flowers Vineyard and Winery and Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates.
It was hard not to be impressed by Mr. Jackson: his forthright manner, his restless intellect, his towering stature (put to good use in the old Kendall-Jackson ads, in which he was invariably photographed in front of a mountain one that he owned, of course).
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