Barbara Barrielle
Barbara Barrielle was a longtime publicist in sports and wine before going to the other side as a wine, travel and entertainment writer. She also produces films and has a documentary "Crushed: Climate Change and the Wine Country Fires" releasing in 2021. Current publications Barbara writes for are AARP Magazine, Northwest Travel & Life, East Hampton Star, Napa Valley Register, Oregon Wine Press as well as Wine Industry Advisor. She lives in Healdsburg, travels extensively and studies wine and languages.
Permit Sonoma Leads “Visioning” Sessions for Cannabis Regulation
The public is greatly encouraged to be a part of the planning for the future of weed cultivation in the County over the next...
Delicato-Coppola Deal Receives Federal Approval
The Federal Trade Commission approved the acquisition of Francis Ford Coppola Winery by Delicato, making Delicato the first winery in over a decade to...
Clare Tooley, MW Weighs-in on Wine-Weed Cohesion
Barbara Barrielle
Three years ago, at the 2019 Wine Industry Network Wine & Weed Symposium, Clare Tooley, MW, found inspiration for her Masters of Wine final...
Delicato-Coppola Collaboration: Industry Implications
The wine world raised eyebrows when, on June 24, Francis Ford Coppola Winery announced its deal-in-progress to sell Sonoma County wine properties to Delicato Wines and take a seat on the company’s board...
Wine Sales Strategies Shaped and Sharpened by the Pandemic
After a challenging year of adjusting their businesses to pandemic conditions, some wineries that flipped their sales models and tried new strategies are reporting success...
Sonoma Wineries Face Growing Permitting Burdens for Business Operations
The ongoing struggle between wineries and Sonoma County to determine the future of permitting for winery activities and events is coming closer to conclusive guidelines...
Growing Forward: A Look to the Future for Winegrowers
The disastrous wildfires, smoke damage and the worldwide pandemic may have been the painful medicine to bring balance back to the grape and wine market and position the industry for a healthier future with valuable lessons learned...
Sonoma County Winery Event Permit Meeting Leaves Vintners Frustrated with Process
Last Thursday’s virtual forum organized by Sonoma County’s Permit Sonoma to ostensibly open up conversation about event permitting for wineries in Sonoma County, had over 200 stakeholders taking time out to participate, but many vintners felt it was a charade.
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...
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...
The HENRYs Offer the Greatest Opportunity for the Wine Sector in...
By Barbara Barrielle
Damien Wilson, Ph.D, The Hamel Family Faculty Chair of Wine Business at Sonoma State, is never boring. That bodes well for his...
Eliminating Weather Holds and Waste: New Cooler Ships Wine Safe and...
From the people that brought Otter Brand to the protection of fragile cell phones comes a new concept in wine delivery, Liviri Vino...
Enterprise Level Automation and AI Marketing Tools Made Accessible to Wineries
Debuting at the WIN Expo in December 2019, PreferencePro by VinterActive made a serious splash and quickly signed up several wineries for this breakthrough email marketing software...
Grape and Bulk Market Activity Increases as Wineries Seek Ways to...
The Lightning Complex, or LMU fire, came earlier this year than Sonoma and Napa had experienced in recent years, so many of the vineyards had hanging fruit. A few whites had been harvested and early ripening Pinot Noir but those harvests were in the minority...
