Some top Oregon Pinots have been created from Zena Crown fruit, by producers including Penner-Ash.

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With the Oregon purchases made earlier this spring (Zena East and Zena Middle vineyards), the company's Oregon acreage now totals 1, 350 acres.

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Zena Herbert, who moved there in December, said she may not have bought her house if the landfill plans had shown up on her searches.

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Ms. Banke has already met with an architect about building a winery at Zena Crown, where she hopes to produce an estate Pinot Noir in 2013 or 2014.

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The original court case against the royal aides was eventually postponed indefinitely after the girl, Zena Mahlangu, told her mother that she did not mind becoming a queen.

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Ms. Banke's influence can be felt most immediately in Oregon, where on Monday the company closed on the famed Zena Crown vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills region (along with Gran Moraine in Yamhill-Carlton).

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But Zena Mahlangu's mother disagrees.

ECONOMIST: Yes