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Article: Dundee, Ore.-based A to Z Wineworks swallows Rex Hill.
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- November 7, 2006
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Byline: Dana Tims
Nov. 7--Oregon's fastest-growing "virtual" winery, founded four years ago on a wave of bulk wine flooding the market, inked a deal Monday making it the largest winery in the state.
Dundee-based A to Z Wineworks, which went from producing 2,600 cases of wine in 2002 to more than 100,000 this year, announced plans to buy Rex Hill Vineyards for an undisclosed amount. The deal not only will bring A to Z a bricks-and-mortar winery and tasting room 22 miles from Portland, but it also will push it past Willamette Valley Vineyards and Bridgeview Vineyard and Winery for bragging rights in the state.
"Figures I have show that A to Z is ...