This image was submitted in the class action complaint as an example of WTSO’s misleading promotion. The “original price” is misleading because this was a private bottling not ever offered at that price. It was made by J. Pedroncelli at the Cramer Ranch Vineyard. The glowing review is written by Jonathan Newman who — while […]

Wines ‘Til Sold Out (WTSO) is close to settling a class action lawsuit for $12.6 million in cash and consumer credits. A proposed settlement has been agreed upon by WTSO and a group of law firms who argued that the flash wine site’s sales tactics were deceptive. The lawsuit was filed on March 15, 2016 […]

JUST FILED: Late Sept 21: Trustee Operating Reports for Sullivan Vineyards Corporation & Partnership. Full documents for premium subscribers available in links at bottom of this article. The newly appointed Sullivan Vineyards bankruptcy Trustee, Timothy Hoffman has charged full speed into sorting out the winery’s Chapter 11 process and says he has gotten the support […]

The wildest Falcon Crest episode ever made pales by comparison with Napa Valley’s Sullivan Vineyards bankruptcy. The Chapter 11 proceeding is one of the messiest, most convoluted, and personally vicious winery insolvencies ever to hit a financial rock bottom in Napa Valley without ending in murder suicide. The Sullivan saga features corporate boardroom skullduggery, a […]

If anyone at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco knows anything about grape fraudster Jeffry Hill’s federal wiretapping case, they are saying nothing. The court records have been sealed for more than 3-1/2 months now in a case that has lingered without federal sanctions for more than three years. Neither court officials, the prosecution […]