United States | In vino veritas

A winemaker’s lawsuit against Napa County is about more than sour grapes

It reflects the business climate in California

BNNHET Sunrise over Napa Valley vineyard with fall color. California
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When Jayson Woodbridge, a former Canadian infantryman turned banker, changed careers and founded a winery in Napa Valley in 1998, he named it Hundred Acre. The name was a tribute to A.A. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh” and was meant to evoke carefree whimsy. More recently, however, Mr Woodbridge has been pondering a different sort of fiction: that of Franz Kafka, famous for his portrayals of labyrinthine bureaucracy.

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