Afternoon Brief, February 29
El Niño Heads Back to California This Week After Hiatus: El Niño storms could blanket central and northern California this week following a mostly February dry spell, according to meteorologist Terry Snow of the Weather Advisory Service...
Afternoon Brief, February 26
Farm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma County...
Afternoon Brief, February 25
California Wine Exports Set Record in 2015: U.S. wine exports, 90% from California, reached $1.61 billion in winery revenues in 2015, an all-time record and a 7.6% increase from 2014. Volume was up 4.1% from the previous year to 461 million liters or 51.2 million cases...
Afternoon Brief, February 24
Age and Disease Threaten Burgundy Wine Shortage, Report Warns: Burgundy wines may become even more difficult to find because of vine disease and smaller harvests from ageing vineyards, according to a new report by the region's wine council...
Afternoon Brief, February 23
Financial Crisis Led to 'Winemaker Freedom": The global financial crisis in 2008 was in some ways positive for winemakers as it gave them a sense of freedom according to Ted Lemon of California's Littorai...
Afternoon Brief, February 22
Peter Mondavi, Napa Valley Wine Pioneer, Dies at 101: Peter Mondavi Sr., a Napa Valley pioneer who steered his family's Charles Krug Winery through more than a half-century of revolutionary change in the American wine industry, died Feb. 20 at his home in St. Helena, on the Charles Krug estate, surrounded by his family...
Afternoon Brief, February 19
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Sonoma County's Small Wineries Pleased with Super Bowl Exposure
Family-owned wineries from Sonoma County said they welcomed the exposure they...
Afternoon Brief, February 18
Tuck Beckstoffer Family Agrees to Acquire Dancing Hares Vineyards and Winery:
Tuck and Boo Beckstoffer have agreed to acquire Dancing Hares Winery and Vineyard in the eastern hills of St. Helena from founders Paula Brooks and Bob Cook...
Afternoon Brief, February 17
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Importance of Terroir Still Unsettled
As a concept, terroir raises controversy among winemakers and grape growers around the world. There...
Afternoon Brief, February 16
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Jean Arnold Sessions Named Interim Executive Director of Sonoma County Vintners
Jean Arnold Sessions, former president of Hanzell Vineyards and...
Afternoon Brief, February 12
Sonoma County Winegrowers Learn How to Combat Pierce’s Disease at Shone Farm Workshop: Thousands of Sonoma County vines have been pulled out and replanted over the past two years, thanks to an outbreak of Pierce's disease given a boost by the recent string of warmer winters, growers and vineyard managers learned at a workshop Thursday on combating the disease...
Afternoon Brief, February 11
U.S. Wine Export Market Ripe for Growth: Washington wine grape growers should be looking to New Zealand as a model for premium wine production and theres opportunity for growth...
Afternoon Brief, February 10
Bordeaux Added to Pesticide Blacklist: Living in a famous wine region like Bordeaux sounds idyllic, but a recent investigation shows it's not such a hot idea especially if you have kids...
Afternoon Brief, February 9
Will Marijuana Be the Next Great Wine Industry Disrupter? The biggest disruption to the American wine industry was Prohibition, which shut down some eighty percent of existing wineries in the period 1920-33...
Afternoon Brief, February 8
Grape Crush Report Reveals Lighter Harvest for Washington State in 2015: Washington State's wine grape harvest in 2015 totaled 222,000 tons, down 2 percent from the prior year, said a report released today by the Washington State Wine Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture...
