“Given the speed of M&A activity in the last decade alone, it’s not difficult to imagine that…”—Esther Mobley

“Given the speed of M&A activity in the last decade alone, it’s not difficult to imagine that within another 50 years Napa Valley’s winery ownership may have shifted starkly and permanently away from families.”

            —Ester Mobley, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle 6/30/2022, on the sale earlier that week of Joseph Phelps Vineyards to Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton