Tag: California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance

As Restaurants Reopen, Sommeliers Re-Envision Wine Lists: Restaurants closed throughout much of 2020 when the novel coronavirus caused a series of lockdowns. To cover the costs of lost sales and in order to continue to pay employees, the monthly rent, and attempt to stay in business, some restaurants resorted to selling much—in some cases all—of their wine inventories...

November 9th - SAN FRANCISCO — California vineyards and wineries are encouraged to apply for the 2022 California Green Medal Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Awards, with applications now being accepted at greenmedal.org.    Vineyards and...

Napa Valley’s Fairwinds Estate Winery Sues Insurer Claiming Refusal to Pay Glass Fire Claim: Fairwinds Estate Winery says one of its insurers sold it a useless insurance policy shortly before the winery was destroyed by the 2020 Glass fire...

October 6th - SAN FRANCISCO — California is the country’s top agricultural producer and in October the state’s wine and winegrape growing community honors the...

2021 Close to Reaching 2019 Sales Levels in the On-Premise: It’s not news that 2020 was a volatile and challenging year for the On Premise, and with many openings and closings, sales suffered in comparison to previous years...

Multi-State Partnership Advances Sustainability in the U.S. Wine Industry Through Research, Education and Promotion: The largest winegrowing states in the country — California, Oregon, New York and Washington, which produce 95% of U.S. wine — have established educational and certification sustainability programs over the past two decades, furthering the widespread adoption of sustainable practices by U.S. winegrowers and winemakers...

September 14th - SAN FRANCISCO — The largest winegrowing states in the country — California, Oregon, New York and Washington, which produce 95% of U.S. wine — have...

California Winery Owner Arrested Over Lobbying: He was friends with Donald Trump, Michael Jackson and Jeffrey Epstein, but now he is talking to the Feds...

New Report Issued by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance July 21 - SAN FRANCICSO — The 2020 California Wine Community Sustainability Report released today by...

California's Droughts Sometimes Make Better Wine, but They're Bad for the Industry Overall -- Here's Why: This year is shaping up to be a very dry one in California. Coming off of an already-dry 2020 — the third-driest year on record since 1895 — the state has gotten only a fraction of the precipitation it would need to replenish water supplies...

California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance programs promote sustainability April 22, 2021 – California is the fourth-largest wine producing region in the world. With that accolade, wineries...

April 8th- SAN FRANCISCO — The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) launched a new website today, the start of Down to Earth month, dedicated...

When Smoke Gets in Your Wine: With so much at stake in the world’s wine industry, UC Davis researchers are focused closely on mitigating the effects of climate change in viticulture...

April 1st - SAN FRANCISCO — The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) launched a new website today, the start of Down to Earth month,...

Vintage Wine Estates, One of the Fastest Growing U.S. Wine Producers, to Become a Public Company: Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp., a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, and Vintage Wine Estates, one of the fastest growing U.S. wine producers with an industry leading direct-to-customer platform, announced today a definitive agreement for a business combination that would result in VWE becoming a publicly traded company...