No Longer a Prisoner, Dave Phinney Goes for Something Harder. “I never made a wine I liked,” says Dave Phinney, world-famous winemaker-turned-distiller. After years of hard work and well-deserved fame, Phinney, now 45, sold Orin Swift and his other wine brands and assets for a cool $300 million.Click to see full answer. Similarly, it is asked, how much is Dave Phinney worth?One could imagine Phinney saying the same of Orin Swift, which he sold to E. &J. Gallo for an undisclosed sum reportedly in excess of $100 million, or of the Prisoner, which Phinney sold to Huneeus Vintners in 2010 for a reported $40 million. (Huneeus later sold the Prisoner to Constellation Brands for $285 million.)Beside above, did Orin Swift sell the prisoner? When you combine excellent wines with creative labeling you are bound to grow fast and now his full time job is with Orin Swift. The “Prisoner” label was their flagship wine (in 2010 Dave sold just the Prisoner label to Huneeus Vintners – also owners of Napa’s Quintessa Winery). Also know, is Dave Phinney married? Whitehall Lane is also where Phinney met his future wife, Kim Leonardini, the daughter of winery owner Tom Leonardini. The couple has been married since 2001 and has two children, Angelina, 10, and Aidan, 8.When did Dave Phinney sell prisoner?Dave ultimately sold The Prisoner to Huneeus Vintners (owners of Rutherford based Quintessa Winery) in 2010 at which point the brand was producing around 85,000 cases of wine each year.