{"id":19745,"date":"2011-01-04T08:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19745"},"modified":"2011-01-04T08:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T12:33:41","slug":"six-bottles-of-wine-at-7170-validates-tpg-founders-bet-on-fine-vintners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/six-bottles-of-wine-at-7170-validates-tpg-founders-bet-on-fine-vintners.html","title":{"rendered":"Six Bottles of Wine at $7,170 Validates TPG Founder&#8217;s Bet on Fine Vintners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; On a warm October afternoon, a steel- framed concrete warehouse north of\u00a0San Francisco is inundated with grapes. Forklifts bearing fruit from the nearby Russian River Valley deliver their loads to a slow-moving conveyor belt. Flanking both sides, winemaking interns pick out stems and sunburned grapes as they groove to hip-hop music thumping from loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the crush at Kosta Browne Winery, a Sonoma County- based maker of pinot noir that\u2019s become one of the hottest wineries among investment bankers, venture capitalists and enthusiasts, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its February issue. Michael Browne, Kosta Browne\u2019s co-founder and winemaker, grabs a cluster from a tub and eats some of the grapes. They burst with berry flavor, and the seeds are nutty, not bitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-01-04\/six-bottles-of-wine-at-7-170-validates-tpg-founder-s-bet-on-fine-vintners.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; On a warm October afternoon, a steel- framed concrete warehouse north of\u00a0San Francisco is inundated with grapes. Forklifts bearing fruit from the nearby Russian River Valley deliver their loads to a slow-moving conveyor belt. Flanking both sides, winemaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19746,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19745\/revisions\/19746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}