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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...
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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...
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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...
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Lindsay Hoopes: Creating Economic Viability and Attracting the Next Generation of Consumers to Napa
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...
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Craig Camp: Leading the Way for Vineyard Rejuvenation from Conventional to Biodynamic Farming 
Craig Camp seems to be universally respected in the West Coast wine industry...
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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...
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The HENRYs Offer the Greatest Opportunity for the Wine Sector in 2021
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 students, of course, but for the rest of us, his colorful...
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Eliminating Weather Holds and Waste: New Cooler Ships Wine Safe and Sustainably Anytime
From the people that brought Otter Brand to the protection of fragile cell phones comes a new concept in wine delivery, Liviri Vino...
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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...
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Grape and Bulk Market Activity Increases as Wineries Seek Ways to Supplement a Smaller, Smoke Plagued Vintage
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...