Flight Department Profile: Chalk Hill Winery
For some flight-department managers, the thought of the boss and his 150-pound Great Dane flying a brand-new, small jet around the world might be cause for
For some flight-department managers, the thought of the boss and his 150-pound Great Dane flying a brand-new, small jet around the world might be cause for concern, but not for Mark Dietrich, aviation manager of Chalk Hill Estate Winery Flight Department.
Dietrich’s boss is Fred Furth, a preeminent antitrust litigator who focuses on class action lawsuits and is CEO of Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards and Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. Flexibility is a requirement for the winery’s flight department. In fact, Dietrich told AIN that a week before he made the round-the-world flight by himself, Furth casually commented, “By the way, next week Brandenburg and I are leaving to go around the world in the [Citation] Mustang.”
