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Zepponi & Company Advises Ponzi Vineyards on Sale to Bollinger Family Posted on May 05, 2021 ZEPPONI & COMPANY PRESS RELEASE Santa Rosa, Calif., May 5, 2021 - Zepponi & Company, a leading merger and acquisition advisory firm specializing in the beverage alcohol industry, is pleased to announce that it served as exclusive financial advisor to Oregon’s Ponzi Vineyards on its sale to France’s Bollinger family, owners of Champagne Bollinger.  The transaction closed on Wednesday, May 4, 2021. ...

Bollingers Buy Ponzi By Michael Alberty The Bollinger family, owners of Champagne Bollinger, Delamain Cognac and three other historic French estates, announced their purchase of the Ponzi Vineyards brand April 7. The sale includes the winemaking and hospitality facilities in Sherwood, as well as the Avellana, Abetina and Madrona vineyards.    In 1970, Dick and Nancy Ponzi established their winery alongside other early Willamette Valley winegrowers. For decades, the family has been expanding ...

Along the Street: Flâneur turning old warehouse into winery Marcus Larson/News-Register ## Just southeast of Flâneur Wine’s outdoor tasting room, the winery’s new production facility is being built in a former warehouse. Flâneur will be making wines in Carlton by fall; its tasting room in the historic grain elevator has been open since 2019.   Flâneur Wines, which already has a destination tasting room in a century-old granary in Carlton, is remodeling an old warehouse building next do...

HUMPDAY NEWS ROUNDUP: A Very Foodie Week April 14, 2021 Get Ready for Fresh Veggies  Corvallis Farmers’ Market will be opening again on April 17, back in downtown, and sticking to COVID restrictions. Those restrictions include allowing only one person per household into the Market at a time, take-out only from the surrounding restaurants, no single-serve drinks sold, and the ever-present masks and social distancing. However, Market restaurants will be allowed to have dining in their parki...

Champagne Bollinger announced the purchase of Ponzi Vineyards, a leading Oregon winery near Sherwood. Trailblazing Oregon winery Ponzi Vineyards has been purchased by the famed French wine company Champagne Bollinger. The Bollinger family announced the sale of the winery about seven miles west of Sherwood Wednesday, April 7, marking its first acquisition of a winery outside France. The sale includes Ponzis hospitality facilities, its 40,000-case winery and 35 acres of vineyards. The sale pri...

Ponzi Vineyards sale to France’s Champagne Bollinger sends shockwaves through the Willamette Valley Updated Apr 08, 2021; Facebook Share By Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/OregonLive Champagne Bollinger’s acquisition of Ponzi Vineyards rolled through the Willamette Valley like a seismic wave. Now that the dust has settled, questions are finding answers. Wednesday’s sale of Ponzi Vineyards to the French wine giant for an undisclosed amount of money was a bolt from the blue. Both side...