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RNDC: Winery Success in 2021 Requires Sales Channel Understanding and Flexibility
Philana Bouvier, VP Fine Wine, Supplier Business Development at Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), a world class distributor of fine wine and spirits in North America, has some advice for 2021...
Coastal Winegrape Market Won’t Return to Normal Until 2023-24
As the president of Allied Grape Growers, a cooperative of over 450 grape growers in California, Jeff Bitter has had a challenging year….like much of the wine producing community...
ARTICLES
Lindsay Hoopes: Creating Economic Viability and Attracting the Next Generation of...
A Napa native, Lindsay Hoopes spent her childhood walking the vineyards with her family, and in so doing, developed an unparalleled love for farming and her surrounding community...
Craig Camp: Leading the Way for Vineyard Rejuvenation from Conventional to...
Craig Camp seems to be universally respected in the West Coast wine industry...
Why a Leading Central Coast Vineyard Is Transitioning to Organic Production
The transition to organic wine grape growing can be seen as a high-risk process, and growers often wonder if positive results published by academic researchers will actually translate to their bottom lines once implemented in their vineyards...
Kim McPherson: Pioneer and Standard-Bearer of Texas Wine
There are few people better known in the Texas wine industry than Kim McPherson...
Janie Brooks Heuck: Taking on Challenges and Committed to Giving Back
When Janie Brooks Heuck, Managing Director of Brooks Wine in Amity, Oregon, was asked how she came into this industry, she responded with a melancholy laugh...
NEWS RELEASES
Qvevri Wines Include Amber Wines to Reflect the Traditional Winemaking Method...
Philadelphia, PA – (Jan. 20, 2021) – Why not present a romantic gift to your Valentine -- a Qvevri Kisi! Sada Wine Imports, a...
Bodegas Protos Releases Inaugural Clarete and Rosé Wines from DO Cigales
January 22nd - I’m excited to announce that Ribera del Duero’s founding winery, Bodegas Protos, has released its inaugural Clarete and Rosé Wines from...
Finding an Innovative Way to Keep Business Going Through COVID-19
January 22nd - Like many British Columbian businesses the event industry has spent the last year reworking their business plans in hopes of having...
2021 Waretown Wine Festival Canceled Due to Existing COVID-19 Pandemic
WARETOWN, N. J. (Jan. 21, 2021) – Organizers of New Jersey’s highly popular annual Waretown Wine Festival, now in its sixth year, have today announced...
John Anthony Family of Wines Strengthens Winemaking Team
Napa, CA (January 21, 2021) – John Anthony Family of Wines begins 2021 by announcing two key personnel moves that strengthen and expand its...
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Della Toffola Takes Intelligent Pressing to a New Level
DELLA TOFFOLA, has launched a new intelligent wine press, adding to their already impressive complement of award-winning winery equipment....
SmartBarrel Wine Storage System Eliminates Breakdown Cooperage
Storing wine safely has been a problem for centuries. Oxygen and microbial contamination can quickly ruin wine. Many solutions...
Maspack Packaging Delivers Safety, Cost Savings and Precision
2020 has been a year on pause for much of the wine industry, but now, 2021 is here, and...
Demystifying Oenodia STARS® Technology
Insight into an Innovative & Sustainable Winemaking
Solution
As the temperatures in many winemaking regions continue to rise, both the wine’s...
Groundbreaking Equipment Design Enhances Efficiency and Ease in Quality Control of...
Florenz Sartorius built laboratory tools and instruments for research laboratories at the University of Göttingen in the late 1800’s....
AFTERNOON BRIEF
Afternoon Brief, January 22nd
The 2020 Wildfires Could Cost California’s Wine Industry $3.7 Billion — but It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way: An early estimate of what last year’s disasters may have cost, in this week’s Drinking with Esther newsletter...
Afternoon Brief, January 21st
North Coast Wine Business Will Feel Effect of the Pandemic for Some Time, Expert Says: While the second half of this year is expected to much better for the North Coast wine business as restaurants and tasting rooms reopen with greater vaccine distribution, the coronavirus pandemic is going to have longer-term impacts on the industry than economic and natural disasters in the past three decades, a key industry analyst said this week...
Afternoon Brief, January 20th
Coalition of Bay Area Restaurants and Wineries Files Lawsuit Against Governor Newsom for Harmful "Arbitrary and Irrational" Outdoor Dining Ban: The Wine Country Coalition for Safe Reopening (the "Coalition") announced today its filing of a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom and California State Public Health Officer Tomás J. Aragón alleging that the state's ban on outdoor dining and wine tasting is arbitrary, irrational, and unfair...
Afternoon Brief, January 19th
Predicting Higher Demand for Wine in 2021: At the end of Prohibition in the U.S. the consumption of wine as measured, slowly grew until war was declared in 1941 and rationing took over everyday lives...
Afternoon Brief, January 18th
How the Alcohol Industry Landscape Changed: From channel shifts to changing regulations, this is how 2020 changed the alcohol landscape — and how those effects will persist into 2021...
