Wine Industry

The Wine Industry Group offers a full range of legal services to wineries, grape growers, wholesalers, retailers and various businesses that serve the wine industry, from coopers and glass manufacturers to printers and shipping companies.  Our services include entity selection and business formation; financing; tax planning; land acquisition; vineyard leases; contracts (grape purchase, distributor and broker agreements, import and export, custom processing agreements); business mergers and acquisitions; federal and state alcohol beverage licensing and compliance work; land use planning, due diligence, entitlements and other local government issues; intellectual property protection; environmental law and regulatory compliance; labor and employment; litigation (commercial disputes, cork taint, boundary and other real property disputes, broker and distributor terminations); and succession planning.  DP&F's wine industry clients are both domestic and foreign, ranging from multinational corporations to family-owned wineries and vineyards.