IMPORTANT NOTE: Hill Family Estate as well as William Hill Estate Winery, are not affiliated with, nor owned by the same families as The Hill Wine Company in this and previous bankruptcy articles. Like the pink Eveready bunny of bankrupt wine companies, the Hill Wine Company soap opera just keeps on going and going and […]
The Wine Industry’s New Financial Heavyweight Player
September 18, 2014
The backer behind the recent acquisitions of WineWare, eWinery Solutions and WineWeb is UK-native Michael Greenough — an über-savvy, successful, no-nonsense, straight-talking M&A and corporate turn-around player with a personal bankroll big enough to go eye-to-eye with Bill Foley. “Mike”as he prefers, earned big-time street cred while at Cerberus and since, has rolled through one success […]
Hill Wine Debacle: Napa Valley Cab: $2.93/Bottle, $5/Gal
September 12, 2014
IMPORTANT NOTE: Hill Family Estate as well as William Hill Estate Winery, are not affiliated with, nor owned by the same families as The Hill Wine Company in this and previous bankruptcy articles. The Hill Wine Company Chapter 7 bankruptcy is stumbling towards complete liquidation via auction, foreclosure, eviction, and trustee asset sale. That’s resulted […]
Crimson Wine Buying Sonoma Vineyard With 98-Year-Old Zinfandel Vines
September 3, 2014
Crimson Wine Group (OTC: CWGL) has agreed to pay $2.6 million for a 24-acre Sonoma County vineyard parcel containing 13 acres of Zinfandel vines planted circa 1916. An 8-K filed with the by Crimson Wine on August 29, said the land — at 2801 Piner Road north of Santa Rosa — was purchased from Silverado […]