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Afternoon Brief, March 13
Does Napa Have too Much Cab?: Does Napa Valley have too much Cabernet? And does it charge too much for it? These questions were not on the agenda, but unexpectedly popped up this week at a Napa Valley Grapegrowers' conference...
Afternoon Brief, March 10
Mercer Canyons Agrees to Pay $1.2 Million to Former Workers: A Klickitat County farm has agreed to pay up to $1.2 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving more than 600 farmworkers.U.S. District Judge Stanley A. Bastian has given initial approval to the settlement, which will now be sent to former workers via mail and radio ads...
Afternoon Brief, March 9
Total Wine Shipments to the US Expanded 3% to 399 Million Cases in 2016: For 12-months ending December 2016, Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates reports that total wine shipments into the US market expanded by 3%, nearing 400 million cases. This growth is consistent with 10 year trends and is across both domestic and imported wines...
Texas Wine Means Texas Wine at Dallas Liquor Store Chain Sigel’s
Sigel’s, one of the largest wine sellers in the Dallas area, has taken a pathbreaking decision to promote Texas wine. Going forward, only wine legally appellated as Texas (or a sub-division within Texas) will be placed on the Texas shelves in all eight stores.
Afternoon Brief, March 8
California's Trailblazing Women Winemakers: The First 20 Years (1965 to 1984): Women and men alike have long been involved in the production of wine in California, but historically few women were known as winemakers. In 2012, when we began our project on California Women Winemakers, a key goal was to identify the state's women winemakers and illuminate their contributions to the wine industry...
Oenological Technology WineSeq Recognized as One of the Most Innovative AgTech...
San Francisco, CA – The leading crowdfunding platform in AgTech, AgFunder, has announced winners of its Most Innovative US Startups Awards to recognize the...
Afternoon Brief, March 7
Wine Market Council and Nielsen Explore Industry Trends: A members-only meeting held Friday by the Wine Market Council and Nielsen at Napa's Culinary Institute of America at Copia provoked a lively discussion of consumer trends in the American wine industry...
Afternoon Brief, March 6
Wine Distribution Alternatives Won't Produce Tears for the Three Tier System: According to a Wines & Vines article, in 1995 the number of alcohol distributors in the U.S. was greater than the number of wineries: 3,000 to 1,800. That kind of competitive choice must have been really good for wineries, but a lot of wine must also have been imported...
Afternoon Brief, March 3
Wine and Marijuana Cause Problems for Beer Industry: Wine and marijuana are cutting into craft beer's buzz, as growth in each of those segments took some use occasions away from a craft category that slowed to single-digit growth in 2016...
Afternoon Brief, March 2
Winemaker Opens Up About Sexism: Judging by the volume of emails, Wine-Searcher's recent article on sexism in the wine industry definitely struck a chord, especially with a cross-section of female winemakers in Australia...
Afternoon Brief, March 1
Wine & Weed Symposium 2017: Strange Bedfellows or Opportunity Knocking?: Garnering attention from such disparate online news sources such as Forbes, The Emerald Report and Homeschooling Guys, Wine Industry Network's newest conference, the Wine and Weed Symposium, announced for August, 2017 in Sonoma County, CA, will be the first such pairing of these two industries...
Mia Bea Wines Introduces Petite Sirah
Wins Silver at Sonoma County Grand Harvest Challenge 2016 and Bronze at the 2017 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
2015 Chardonnay takes Gold/Best of Class/Best...
Afternoon Brief, February 28
Pending Legislation Threatens to Close as Many as 25 Maryland Wineries: The Maryland Wineries Association has been scrambling for the past couple weeks to have a proposed bill rewritten to prevent as many as one-third of its wineries from being closed immediately...
Adelsheim Vineyard Announces Stumptown’s Joth Ricci as New CEO
Adelsheim Vineyard plans for its future with a succession in leadership from Oregon wine pioneer, David Adelsheim, to beverage industry veteran, Joth Ricci.
Newberg, Oregon (February...
Afternoon Brief, February 27
Another Outstanding Napa Valley Vintage Inspires Feverish Bidding at Premiere Napa Valley: Wines from the high quality but low yielding 2015 harvest took center stage at today's 21st annual Premiere Napa Valley barrel tasting and futures auction, hosted by the Napa Valley Vintners nonprofit association...
