Family-Owned Napa Winery Monticello Vineyards Could Go Up For Sale | Eater SF

"One of the few family-owned wineries in Napa since 1970, Monticello Vineyards is now at risk of being sold amid a reality-TV–level family feud: seven Corley siblings each hold stakes, and Carolyn Corley says she and two brothers want to keep the business while older brothers Mark, Kent, Stephen, and Michael are pushing to cash out. I learned that financial and backroom dealings have been going on since 2021, five years after their father and founder Jay Corley died, and the dispute could come to a head at a shareholder meeting on Tuesday, May 14 when the board might file a motion to sell; shareholder Jugal Taneja, who offered to buy 40 percent, described the fighting as “like a soap opera.”" - Paolo Bicchieri