February 11, 2021
(February 10, 2021, Novato, CA) – The California Department of Food and Agriculture Preliminary Grape Crush Report for 2020 was released today. This harvest was much smaller than average, but from a volume...
February 11, 2020
(February 10, 2020, Novato, CA) – We’ll never know how big this crush could have been!! The California Department of Food and Agriculture Preliminary Grape Crush Report for 2019 was released today. The...
April 10, 2019
(April 10, 2019, Novato, CA) – Did we say BIG?? It was, but not as big as we thought! The California Department of Food and Agriculture Grape Crush Report for 2018 was released today. The 2018 Harvest...
April 10, 2019
By Turrentine Brokerage
Novato, CA, April 10, 2019 – The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Final Grape Crush Report for 2018 has been released. It is a summary for the supply...
April 10, 2019
The 2018 California crush report was released today, and as expected the report reveals a bountiful 2018 winegrape harvest up 6.6% in volume from 4,016 thousand tons in 2017 to 4,282 in 2018. The majority...
January 10, 2019
SACRAMENTO, January 9, 2019 – The ongoing federal government shutdown, which began Dec. 22, may soon affect a key program of great importance to winegrape growers.
Thursday, Jan. 10 is the deadline for...
March 12, 2018
40 Wines That Changed the Way We Drink
Some wines are good, some are bad, and some are significant. Here are 40 that made a difference...
March 26, 2015
Napa murder-suicide leaves fate of winery, lawsuits in question: Dahl Vineyards is being evicted from its Yountville home, a week after proprietor Robert Dahl shot an investor to death with a silencer-equipped...
March 26, 2015
Those of you who read my review of the crush report for the Wine Industry Network, may have noticed that I gave limited analysis of the crush report by geographic location. This is the third part of a...
March 18, 2015
U.S. Authorities Sink Underwater Wine Maturation: Wineries will have to scuttle plans to age their wines under the sea after American authorities torpedoed the practice...