![]() Otsuka operates an experimental winemaking center near Fuji, in Japan. Begun in 1959 in the Santa Cruz Mountains and famous for its Cabernet Sauvignon, it was purchased by Otsuka U.S., a subsidiary of the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company. Ridge was one of the most recently sold, in January 2017. There is nothing on the front or back labels that will tell you a small winery has been purchased by a large conglomerate. In fact, unless you were reading wine magazines, you wouldn’t have any way to know that La Crema was bought by Jackson Family Wines, or Trinchero now owns Folie á Deux. They have gobbled up so many wineries that today, they sell 60% of the wines sold on your supermarket “wall of wine.”Īnd the kicker is, you may have bought one of their mass-produced wines and never known it. Michelle…What do they all have in common? They are America’s largest wine conglomerates, growing ever bigger with each winery purchase. Wines mass-produced by conglomerates dominate store shelves.
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