Wine Country Dreams

摘要

When Howard Leight and his son Howard Leight Jr. host events at their Rocky Oaks Estate in Malibu, Calif, guests are poured homemade wine. But it's not the vinegary plonk your grandfather concocted in his basement. The Leights serve up serious—and legal—wine poured from handsome bottles adorned in the Malibu Rocky Oaks label. Leight, founder of Howard Leight, a San Diego, Calif, headphone company, owns a California vineyard and winery. It's a West Coast trophy property now on the market—it could be yours for $49 million. Multimillion-dollar fortunes can purchase a number of items that incite envy among peers, but vineyards like Rocky Oaks occupy a special niche: They've been conferring status for centuries.