RIP February 18, 1930- April 21, 2011
Jess Stonestreet Jackson, visionary winemaker noted for popularizing Chardonnay with his Kendall-Jackson Winery and one of the most successful independent winery owners in the world, died today at his home in Geyserville, California. He was 81. Known for his fearless, iconoclastic approach to business, Jackson became one of the world's most successful self-made men by taking chances in businesses that were anything but a sure thing; first by selecting grapes from the best vineyards in California and turning them into a small bottling of Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve that soon became the most popular Chardonnay in America.
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