Please share.... Please share. This post is regarding false allegations, misinformation, extreme exaggeration, and unrelenting attacks against the Virginia Military Institute by Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira. So, I decided to take a look into Shapira's character; the following is documented information: As the story unfolds, Ian Shapira, WAPO reporter, and VMI nemesis, hails from a prominent Louisville, KY family. The Shapira family owns and operates the 'Heaven Hill Distillery,' reported as the sixth largest producers of spirits in the US . . . Ian Shapira is a Board Member of the family business, while moonlighting as a WAPO reporter (or is that visa versa). Nonetheless, the Shapira family distillery produces a variety of spirits, specifically one of which is: