March 7, 2019
We came to VinExpoNY. We saw VinExpoNY. We left VinExpoNY. As usual it was filled to the brim with suppliers that are incredibly eager to sell into the USA. While visually less crowded then last year,...
March 6, 2019
On Monday March 4, 2019 I read a Facebook post from Tina Caputo. For many years Tina was the editor for Vineyard & Winery Management and is a great writer. Tina had a really important point for any...
March 5, 2019
“We are a small, family-owned winery producing award-winning wines from our *estate vineyard/top vineyards) in our region.” This is true. You have heard or read this before. Maybe it’s on your Home page,...
March 4, 2019
There seems to be more discussion taking place within the wine industry pertaining to possible plateauing or even a pullback in U.S. wine consumption. Many propositions are offered as to why there may...
February 27, 2019
Even if you went to the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium and spent two days visiting the nearly 700 exhibitors on the massive trade show floor, you probably didn’t have a chance to visit every exhibit,...
February 27, 2019
If cases of wine were missing from your winery, would you start a search to find out what happened to them? Of course you would. The idea of cases of wine disappearing without a trace is not good. After...
February 25, 2019
Like most of Earth I watched the Oscars last night. Beside the plausible deniability of a Bradly Cooper and Gaga relationship, there was something else that became clear to me. Amidst the multiple nominees...
February 20, 2019
By Dave Moore
Over the last 20 years the number of U.S. wineries has more than quadrupled. There are now over 9,000 wineries across the country. California is home to around half of those, almost 4,500...
February 20, 2019
We visited the Department of Motor Vehicles last week. We had made an appointment as there are almost 500,000 people in the county in which we live and two DMV offices, so they tend to be busy.
We arrived,...
February 18, 2019
Jim Rickards grew up in San Francisco, a city kid. But he always knew he had the farming gene. “When I got out of the military after Vietnam, I did three things: grew my hair, grew my mustache and got...