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| | Mountain man / A 'retired' Jess Jackson heads for the hills to revamp Kendall-Jackson |
 | | When he announced his retirement, Jackson said, "It's time for me to spend more time with my family, ride my horses, play a little golf and concentrate on life as a rancher and farmer." He said he was ready become a "gentleman farmer," working for pleasure and not profit. |
 | | Jackson's plan is twofold: achieve greater quality and complexity in the Kendall-Jackson brand without raising prices, and assemble a collection of wines called "Kendall-Jackson Highlands Estates" -- ultrapremium, single- estate bottlings made from the Jackson family's best vineyards in Sonoma, Napa, Santa Barbara, Mendocino and Monterey counties. |
 | | Jackson bought the land in the mid-1990s and has planted it mostly to Cabernet Sauvignon, at an average 825-foot elevation, in a melange of red rock and volcanic ash soils. |
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