(Wine-Searcher) - Agreeing to end a lawsuit against the company that fired him, the former Wine Institute chairman will no longer have anything to do with Paul Dolan Vineyards wines.

Paul Dolan signed away his name last week. There will still be Paul Dolan Vineyards wines, but he won't have anything to do with them.

After a bitter two-year legal fight, Dolan and Mendocino Wine Company agreed to drop the lawsuits against each other that resulted from the company firing Dolan in 2012, and summoning sheriff's deputies to escort him from the office. As part of the agreement, Dolan loses all rights to the Paul Dolan Vineyards brand.

"The Paul Dolan brand was much more than a brand to me," Dolan told Wine Searcher. "It was the natural extension of much of my life's work in the quest to bring to life the possibility of creating a shift in the sustainability of the planet through business leadership."

Tom Thornhill, CEO of Mendocino Wine Co., said Paul Dolan never made the Paul Dolan Wines anyway.

"Paul really wasn't the winemaker," Thornhill told Wine Searcher. "Bob Swain has been the winemaker from day one. Bob was there at crush. Paul was involved only when we were doing final blend, and then only on the reds."

The bitter dissolution of the partnership came after eight years of working together on biodynamic and organically farmed wines.