If you don't have the agreement of all the heirs, and the will does not waive a bond, or the named executor is not the one probating the will, any judge will require a bond. The amount o the bond is based on either the value of the esate, or if the heris are in agreement, the amount of unsecured debt.
On Mt. Veeder, fire burned through Sky Vineyardsâ 14 acres of zinfandel and syrah planted at an elevation of 2,100 feet, though its winery survived. The Atlas Peak fire scorched the organic vineyard that Michael Mondavi Family Estate uses for its Animo cuvÃ©e.
In the 1960s, Viognier seemed to be an endangered grape, planted only in dwindling numbers in a pair of obscure redoubts in France, the shrinking Condrieu region and the one-winery ChÃ¢teau-Grillet AOC. By the 1990s, it had become all the rage, with vineyards springing up all over California, in tandem with the explosion of Syrah.