Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Changes Ownership as SMWE Focuses on Pac NW

Dear Client:     After 16 years of collaboration, family-owned Italian fine wine producer Marchesi Antinori and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates announced that Marchesi Antinori will take over full ownership of Napa-based Stag's Leap Wine Cellars. No financial details were disclosed.  "There are few opportunities in one's lifetime when such an important and historical winery as Stag's Leap is available," says Piero Antinori, honorary president for Marchesi Antinori. "I have to thank Ste. Michelle Wine Estates for this great occasion that