Coppola turned 82 this year; his wife Eleanor is 85. Both of their surviving children work in cinema like their parents once did, and neither was believed to be interested in running what had become a sprawling winery operation.
The deal does not include Inglenook winery and vineyard in Napa; Coppola s home is on the property. It also does not include Domaine de Broglie winery and vineyard in Oregon, which Coppola bought in 2018. But it does include the other Coppola brands, two wineries in Geyserville in northern Sonoma County, and the 100-acre Archimedes Vineyard parcel in Sonoma s Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak AVA.
Delicato issued a press release about the deal but a company spokesman said no interviews would be granted until the Federal Trade Commission signs off on it. Delicato was already the nation s fifth largest winery by production size; the press release says the deal will make Delicato the No. 5 supplier of US wines over $11.
30 vintages in, Lula Cellars’ Matt Parish excited by a ‘learning curve that keeps going up’
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
A photo of the team at Lula Cellars, located in California s Anderson Valley. Matt Parish is seated on the far right.
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Matt Parish joined Lula Cellars in the summer of 2017, taking over the winemaking at a limited production, ultra-premium winery situated in the “Deep End” of California’s Anderson Valley, a 2 1/2-hour drive north up the coast from San Francisco.
It’s located outside the town of Philo, in Mendocino County, 25 minutes from the Pacific coast.
A New Zealand native, Parish brought with him a portfolio packed with experience as a winemaker and wine executive. That includes winemaking roles at Constellation Wines US and various companies in France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, and as vice president and chief winemaker for the Americas at Treasury Wine Estates, which featured Beringer