Irish Entrepreneur Creates One Label For Great Wines From Around the World

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Issue: December 15, 2006

John Hunt founded Oriel in 2000 intending to produce quality wines from the world's best regions and bottle them under the Oriel label. "This won't work!" and "You're mad!" were two of the responses his idea received.

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