Rabbit Ridge Zinfandel

[Kcwhippet]

Initially, his problems began when he built seven new buildings at the winery without taking out any of the required permits from the county. He and the county went back and forth for over a year, and they finally took away his current use permit which allowed him to produce up to 25,000 cases a year. Well, he was making 270,000 cases of wine, which was over ten times what he was allowed. That took him back to his original permit which allowed something like 3,000 cases production. He then said he was going to pull up stakes and relocate to Paso Robles, which he said was "wine friendly". Last I heard, he had paid about $800,000 in fines to restore his permit and dismantled the seven buildings. I believe he's still intending to relocate. I don't know how he's currently getting around the 25,000 case restriction on production. What a mess!