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For the last 15 years on our annual visit to LV, we made a point to drive out to have lunch at Symphony, the wonderful little restaurant in the Pahrump Valley Winery. I just saw a headline that PVW lost its liquor license. How did this fiasco come about?
Eater Las Vegas reported on this at vegas.eater.com.
The winery was sold in 2019 and, apparently, the new owners believed that the liquor license transferred when they bought the operation for $7.5 million. Nye County officials don't see it that way, contending that liquor licenses are held by individuals, not businesses.
In this case, the liquor license was held by the wife of the seller. She was supposed to be kept on as staff, but that apparently didn't work out. When she left, county officials contend, the liquor license went with her.
Still, the winery operated for a year on a conditional liquor license, which was scheduled to be suspended on July 7. But that date was moved up to August 18 to allow the new owners to get the application and fees together for the permanent license.
Some documents were submitted at the show-cause hearing on Aug. 18, but due to uncertainty in the ownership of the winery and the number of missed deadlines since early July, the Nye County Commissioners voted 5-1 to revoke the conditional license.