Friday, April 11, 2008

Grappling for the grapes

The oak-studded grasslands and lush rolling hills that make up the 21,000-acre winery and ranch near California's storied Napa Valley is the unlikely target of one of most heated boardroom battles in Hawai'i.

For more than a year, the fight for the control of the closely held Langtry Estate & Vineyards, Guenoc wine label and its Hawai'i-based owner Malulani Investments Ltd. has played out in courts in Honolulu and Los Angeles, pitting several kama'aina investors against a scion of the Magoon family, which started the winery more than a quarter of a century ago.



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