(Pressdemocrat) - In an upcoming episode of CBS's hit series, Undercover Boss, Rick Tigner, president of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates, gets choked up during the hour-long reality show. Photo Galleries. Production of the show started last spring, around the time that Tigner's boss and mentor, wine industry icon Jess Jackson, died. Jackson himself gave the go-ahead for the show early last year. Undercover Boss, which puts chief executives on the frontlines of the companies they run, took Tigner back to his working-class upbringing in Modesto.