When Allen Shoup retired in 2000 as CEO of Washington state’s largest wine company, Stimson Lane (now Ste Michelle Wine Estates), he had already begun stocking a new stable with fresh winemaking horses for his Long Shadows Vintners company.
Long Shadows is a clever mix of marketing and winemaking know-how, a Shoup scheme to focus attention on Washington wine through associations with some of the world’s most accomplished winemakers – Michel Rolland, Armin Diel, Randy Dunn, Philippe Melka, Agustin Huneeus Sr, John Duval, and Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari. Each owns a Long Shadows brand in partnership with Shoup and...