Is Your Brand Just in Your Bottle?
Imagine 1500 people coming to your winery after hours over the course of several weekends.
Imagine most are there for the first time and only...
A Tasting Room Manager’s Guide to EMV
If you process credit cards in your winery or tasting room, you’re probably starting to hear about new payment technology and the upcoming EMV Liability...
Adhesives in the Wine Labeling and Packaging Process: Best Practices
When is the last time you thought about the role that adhesives play in your winery’s labeling and packaging process? If your answer is...
Update on Grapevine Red Blotch Associated Virus
By Judit Monis, Ph.D. Eurofins STA Laboratories
Grapevine red blotch associated virus (GRBaV) is different from most other known grapevine infecting viruses in that its...
Make Your Wine Sparkle – Basics on the Three Main Methods...
Find out why making sparkling wine in the méthode champenoise tradition is often preferred by winemakers.
By Penny Gadd-Coster
Making your wines sparkle can be accomplished...
How Millennials Are Changing the Wine Industry
While the precise dates governing the birth years for the biggest generation in history known as millennials vary, (somewhere between 1976 and 2004), there...
20th Vintage DeLille Cellars Chaleur Estate Blanc to be Released at...
Woodinville, WA, July 8, 2015: DeLille Cellars marks over 20 years of discovery and innovation with the release of its 2014 Chaleur Estate Blanc...
Prepping for Your Sparkling Wine Project
By Penny Gadd-Coster
With harvest nearly upon us, now is the perfect time to start thinking about turning some of your grapes into sparkling wine....
Seeing the AdultBev Forrest Through the Trees
In Chicago, the best city on Earth, we are hosting the National Restaurant Show this week. The NRA show, as it is so weirdly...
Sonoma's First Barrel Auction – They Did It Their Way
by Monty Preiser
It is about 6:00 p.m. on Friday May 1. Less than 32 hours ago I began a whirlwind 2 days in the company...
Why Counteroffers Do Not Work
“Buying” an employee back when they try to resign, a counteroffer, rarely works out, even in the short run. Ninety-eight percent of the time, the employee leaves within six months to a year and a half, and often with more acrimony than the first attempt.
How to Convert Your Job Interview into a Business Meeting
For the Job Seeker – Advice from a Recruiting Expert
Do you find that the words “job interview” cause you to start sweating with nervous...
Do I really need Over the Vine Water for Frost Protection?
If you are in an area that has limited (or maybe zero) water available for frost protection, is there anything that you can do...
District-by-District Review of the Crush Report, Part 3: California Interior
Those of you who read my review of the crush report for the Wine Industry Network, may have noticed that I gave limited analysis...
Revision of CDFA regulations governing grapevine nursery stock production
The California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, administered by CDFA, aims to eliminate specific grapevine diseases such as leafroll, fanleaf, corky bark, stem-pitting and fleck that are spread from vine to vine by grafting and/or vegetative propagation
