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New Machine Uses Gravity to Meet Grape Sorting Challenges
Could the French Tribaie be the next big thing for ensuring quality of wine with its unique grape-sorting process? This time of year Northern California is focused on grapes and the quality and condition in which they arrive at the winery: brix level, flavor profiles, seed color, bird damage, rot…
Foley Family Wines Recruits Former Jackson Family Wines President Hugh Reimers
Bill Foley, who has sought to emulate the late wine magnate Jess Jackson while building Foley Family Wines into one of the largest wine companies in Sonoma County, has recruited one of the top executives at Jackson Family Wines to run his growing Santa Rosa wine business…
Are There Enough Sonoma Harvest Workers?
A near-perfect growing season in Sonoma, marked by record rainfall and a mild frost-free spring, gave way this month to record heat and thunderstorms. This forced some teams of pickers to work around the clock…
Should Sonoma Put a Stopper on Tasting Rooms?
The Sonoma City Council is considering whether to place limits on the number of wine tasting rooms allowed around the Plaza. And, to put it in wine tasting terms, they’re going to swirl and waft over this one for a while…
Napa Valley Harvest Report 2017: Cool Weather Slows Down Grape Picking
The Last Frontier: The Online Economy and Alcohol
Research to Use Bacteria in Revolutionary Ways
That ‘1 in 10 Wines Are Corked’ Thing Is a Myth, According to Cork Organization
Overcoming the Kosher Conundrum in the U.S. Market
Only the Fittest Survive in Today’s B.C. Wine Industry
The International Bulk Wine and Spirits Show Announces Conference Schedule and Speakers
French Wineries Picking Smallest Crop Since 1945
UK Prime Minister Theresa May Welcomes English Winery’s Trade Deal with Canada
Drought Causes ‘Earliest Ever’ Harvest in the Douro
China’s Rebound Makes Wine Best Performing Collectible
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Talent and the Tasting Room – Building a High Performance Sales Culture
October 17, 2017 – Webinar
Wine Marketing & Tourism Conference
November 6, 2017 – Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Wine Bloggers Conference
November 9-12, 2017 – Santa Rosa, CA, United States
DTC & The Digital Marketing Forecast for 2018
November 15, 2017 – St. Helena, CA, United States
North Coast Wine Industry Expo
November 30, 2017 – Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Mystery Shoppers Visit Pine Ridge Vineyards
Charles Banks: From Screaming Eagle to Jailbird
Pét Nat Wines: A Fresh Look at an Old Style for 2017 and Beyond
Napa Valley Vintners Is Tone Deaf When It Comes to Land-Use Politics
Sonoma County Wine Auction Raises Record-Breaking $5.2 Million for Sonoma County Charities
Amazon to Put Online Booze Deliveries Under Pressure
Finding the Rising Superstars of the Beverage Industry: Wine Enthusiast 40 Under 40 Tastemakers
Who’s Killing the Fine Wine Retailers?
Proper Use of Aerial Diagnostic Maps to Improve Vineyard Performance
Sonoma City Considers Moratorium on New Wine Tasting Rooms
Wine Institute Releases Results of New California Wine Tourism Survey
Direct-to-Consumer Importers Carve a New Niche
Cabernet Underpins Double-Digit Sales Growth
New Jersey Winemaker Cooperation Results in Measurable Wine Quality Advances
Wine & Spirits Magazine Announces the Top 100 Wineries of 2017
