Tag: Bricoleur Vineyards
Afternoon Brief, April 18th
E-Tongue Can Detect White Wine Spoilage Before Humans Can: While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the “e-tongue” still outperformed human senses when detecting contaminated wine in a recent study...
Bricoleur Vineyards’ Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and Cancer Research Advocate, Sarah...
The impressive list honors Northern California’s top business and community leaders
WINDSOR, California (April 18, 2024) – Bricoleur Vineyards is pleased to announce that the winery’s Co-Founder...
Afternoon Brief, January 31st
Washington the Winner in Bad Wine Year: Each year, when many of Sonoma County’s 1,800 certified sustainable winegrape growers gather for the Sonoma County Winegrowers’ (SCW) annual meeting, they want to know what is next for one of the world’s most sustainable winegrowing regions. Today, they learned the answer to their question...
Award-Winning Bricoleur Vineyards Kicks Off National Cancer Prevention Month with a...
WINDSOR, California (January 31, 2024) – As National Cancer Prevention Month kicks off on February 1st, Mark Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO of Bricoleur Vineyards, is...
Afternoon Brief, December 6th
New Lawsuit Challenges Protectionist California Wine Distribution Law: The National Association of Wine Retailers announced its support today for a lawsuit challenging a discriminatory and protectionist California restriction on out-of-state wineries selling directly to California retailers and restaurants...
Award-Winning Bricoleur Vineyards Promotes Chef Todd Knoll to Executive Chef and...
Chef Thomas Bellec becomes Bricoleur Vineyards’ Culinary Director
WINDSOR, California (December 5, 2023) – Mark Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO of Bricoleur Vineyards, the home of Wine...
Afternoon Brief, October 26th
Washington State University's Sensor-Laden Chardonnay Block Collects Data for AI Scientists and Offers Demonstrations for Growers: Automating vineyard irrigation requires a network of sensors, solar panels, wires and data loggers that can be at risk of run-ins with equipment. That’s one of the first lessons the engineers learned at Washington State University’s Smart Vineyard demo farm in Prosser...
Afternoon Brief, October 5th
Website Launches to Inform Public About Lawsuits: Hoopes Vineyards, Summit Lake Vineyards and Smith-Madrone Winery are suing Napa County over unconstitutional patterns and practices and have now launched saveoursmallwineries.org...
Afternoon Brief, September 28th
Is a Robotic Arm in Calistoga Pouring the Future?: An early-stage piece of technology at Maria Concetto's tasting room in Calistoga is turning heads. Known as RobinoVino, this robotic wine-pouring arm is not merely a novelty but a functional prototype with potentially significant implications for the sector...
Afternoon Brief, September 26th
Champagne Pickers Treated 'Like Dogs': French public prosecutor opens two human trafficking investigations after France shuts down grape picker accommodation sites...
Slow Food International’s USA “Snail of Approval” Is Awarded to Bricoleur...
The Snail of Approval, given to farms that are making a significant contribution to improving the food system, will be presented to the Bricoleur...
Afternoon Brief, September 25th
No Signs of a Turning Point Yet for Wine: There has been little change in the trajectory of the U.S. wine market over the past three months...
Afternoon Brief, September 8th
Two Wineries Join Lawsuit Accusing Napa County of Unconstitutional Patterns & Practices: Two wineries have filed motions to join Hoopes Vineyards as parties in interest in the ongoing action against Napa County alleging an unlawful pattern and practice of forcing wineries that have operated for decades to seek permits for rights they have long possessed...
Afternoon Brief, September 6th
Renowned International Winemaker Files Lawsuit Against Napa County over Denial of Water Rights: Jayson Woodbridge, owner and winemaker of one of the world’s most sought-after wines, has filed suit against the County of Napa after the county refused to issue permits for water wells on Woodbridge’s vineyard properties, in violation of state and federal law...
Afternoon Brief, August 14th
Maui Wildfires Kill Dozens and Devastate Communities and Hospitality Businesses: The historic town of Lahaina, popular with tourists, has lost hundreds of buildings, including restaurants like Fleetwood's on Front St., owned by musician Mick Fleetwood...
