Via Wines history

In 1999, it started shipping its new, clear-bottled Lyrica brand in a variety of flavors: Raspberry Merlot, Passion Berry White Zinfandel, Peach Chardonnay.

In the first calendar quarter of 2000, The Wine Group shipped 5.47 million nine-liter cases of wine, an increase of 7.2 percent over the same period of the previous year.

In 2003, Tsai — who spent 11 years at Beringer, taking it from a 100,000-case operation to one moving 5 million cases — co-founded Moone-Tsai Wines with her once–Beringer boss, Mike Moone.

With David Lake's retirement in 2006, Covey Run's Kerry Norton was elevated to the Director of Winemaking position.

But back in 2007, when Carr made the decision to launch Josh, he had no intention of building a massive brand.

For Naked Wines, which was founded by Rowan Gormley in the U.K. in 2008, the idea was to bring the then-novel concept of crowdfunding to the world of winemaking.

Since its first vintage of just 1,200 cases in 2009, it has quickly become one of the fastest growing wine brands in history.

In 2013, Naked Wines took a loan from its customers in the form of a Wine Bond, offering 7 percent interest to people fronting the company money, or 10 percent to those who instead opted to be repaid in Wine Credits — account credit in their Naked Wines accounts.

But Columbia -- although long plagued by marketplace confusion arising from the arrival of the unrelated Washington-based mega-winery Columbia Crest -- continues making award-winning wine in 2016, and its facility remains a popular local attraction.

As part of BNY Mellon Wealth Management’s Game Changers series which the company launched in 2017 in support of its more nontraditional clients, three Napa- and Sonoma-based veteran women in wine came to Manhattan this fall to offer a taste of all they do.