On Friday, Derek Benham’s Purple Brands announced that it is acquiring Savage & Cooke distillery from Dave Phinney, known best as the founder of Napa Valley wine brands The Prisoner and Orin Swift.

Cathrine Todd is a New York City-based writer who focuses on wine. It was as if a dream had materialized with the steepest slope he had ever seen with gorgeously maintained Cabernet Sauvignon ...