Boisset Family Estates buys Calif. winery from Japan’s Kirin




Boisset Family Estates, a 48-year-old family business with branches in the U.S. and France, has acquired its first winery in California’s Napa Valley, Raymond Vineyard & Cellar, from Japan’s Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd.,

the

San Francisco Business Times

reported.

Jean-Charles Boisset is the company president.

The Raymond family, which has been in the business for 130 years, sold their property to Kirin in 1989 and became managing partners with a managing interest, the article said. Vineyard manager Craig Raymond and president and winemaker Walter Raymond are expected to remain with the property. (Source:

San Francisco Business Times,

Aug. 10, 2009.)

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