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By John Arundel
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
As a teenager, Tareq Salahi grew up helping his father plant and cultivate the vineyard he started in 1975 on a postage-stamp-sized parcel in Fauquier County.
Salahi, 38, became enamored with the wine business, gaining apprenticeships at vineyards in Australia and Napa Valley and helping build Oasis Vineyard near Hume into an operation which sold 18,000 cases of wine last year.
In recognition of his passion for making wine, his father pledged to sell the vineyard to him one day for a dollar, Salahi recalls.
Last week, in a Fauquier County courtroom, a yearlong feud over the ownership and operation of Oasis came to quiet closure. During a hearing in Circuit Court Nov. 27, attorneys presented Judge Jeffrey W. Parker with an agreed order that all parties had approved - N. Casey Margenau’s offer to buy the property and assets of Oasis Vineyard Inc. for $4.15 million.
Margenau’s offer apparently exceeded that of Tuscan Ventures LLC, a holding company widely believed to be controlled by Miami Heat basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, which reportedly bid $4- million.
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