11.  It is seeking links with U.S. wine companies and better access to U.S. distribution channels.

12.  Napa Ridge was the brainchild of Beringer Wine Estates, a venerable Napa Valley wine company that reinvented itself in recent years.

13.  No company has contributed more campaign money to Dole than the Gallo wine company.

14.  Now Paul Masson is owned by Canandaigua Wine Co., and the question is whether it is time to sell this wine company stock.

15.  Once, an investment banker found a wine company ripe for acquisition.

16.  Seeking growth elsewhere, the company acquired such busineses as the Taylor wine company, a shrimp farm, a pasta manufacturer and a plastic-cutlery operation.

17.  Stephen Koetzner, the co-founder of WineShopper.com, now part of Wine.com, will develop e-commerce and e-business opportunities for the wine company.

18.  Such intervention is not widely acknowledged among wine companies, which want to preserve their old-world image.

19.  The most expensive new boutique wines in Chile are produced by established wine companies either in partnerships or in new premium corporate divisions.

20.  The petition threatens to draw beer and wine companies into the fight at the FCC over whether to create new rules for alcoholic beverage advertising.