Accolades for Harvey Chaplin

DIED: Dolores Huerta, who were Cesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve the working condutions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields, at 96. With Chavez, she negotiated collective bargaining agreements and contracts with big grape growers, winning the first health and benefit plans

Marvin Shanken was smarter – and a better publisher – than the rest of us. While other alcohol beverage publishers focused on trade publishing, Shanken built a publishing powerhouse that encompassed both trade publications and consumer magazines, including Wine Spectator and Cigar Advocate. And before most publishers developed events, he did. Shanken

David Hirsch founded Hirsch Vineyards when the foggy Sonoma Coast was considered unsuitable for viticulture. Hirsch Vineyards has supplied grapes to Williams Selyem, Kistler and Littorai — helping catapult the remote wine region to global acclaim.  Read Jess Lander's excellent obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle.