PHOTOS: Fess Parker | 1924-2010

Parker, seen in 2002, walks in one of his vineyards in Los Olivos, Calif. In 1987, he bought a 714-acre ranch in Los Olivos, in Santa Barbara County’s Santa Ynez Valley. Although he had planned to live there and run cattle on the land, the climate and the soil were ideal for a vineyard.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Parker, seen in 2002, tastes one of his wines. The Fess Parker Winery & Vineyards had its inaugural harvest in 1989. By 2001, wines from Parker, whose label included a tiny, gold coonskin cap, had won more than 30 medals.  (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Parker poses next to a photograph at his Fess Parker Winery & Vineyards in Los Olivos, Calif., showing himself in a coonskin cap portraying his “Daniel Boone” TV series character.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)