The California Grapevine Registration & Certification Program, administered by CDFA, aims to eliminate specific grapevine diseases such as leafroll, fanleaf, corky bark, stem-pitting and fleck that...
Thursday morning CBS News broke the story about high levels of arsenic in top-selling wines and the ensuing class action lawsuit filed against 24 California winemakers. The levels of arsenic in the tested...
by Laura Ness
Matt Kettmann (Photo Courtesy of Wine Industry Symposium Group)
Listening to the presentations at the 21st annual Central Coast Insights, I couldn’t help but come away with these observations:
The...
Those of you who read my review of the crush report for the Wine Industry Advisor, may have noticed that I gave limited analysis of the crush report by geographic location. This is the second part of a...
I came across a great article Extraordinary Brands, Extraordinary Leaders, Extraordinary Frontline Behaviors by a man named Alessandro Donetti, the Managing Partner of CBE, a consulting company. Mr. Donetti...
A recently completed benchmarking survey indicates that replanting and new vineyard plantings are slightly down for California in 2014 and up by five percent or more for Washington State, with those trends...
Held for the first time in Paso Robles, the annual conference organized by the Wine Industry Symposium Group, attracted nearly 200 attendees from all facets of the wine industry. They learned about the...
Those of you, who read my review of the crush report for the Wine Industry Advisor, may have noticed that I gave limited analysis of the crush report by geographic location. In this article, I’ll take...
Continuing their commitment to innovation in wine packaging, G3 Enterprises introduced their newest solutions at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium.
Among the products on display were G3’s new...
“In your life you have pages, chapters, and books. I’ve been in the wine business for over 40 years, and this is a new book I’m starting,” says Michael Richmond, winemaker and general manager for Bouchaine...
For some of us in the wine business, the release of the Crush Report is one of the most exciting events of the year. It means that the time has come to browse, analyze, cut up, re-arrange and make sense...
While looking through my email a week or so ago, I came across an email from the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail detailing some of the events and options for consumers to do different things at the wineries.
A...
Janine McMullan
Randox Food Diagnostics recently added a Glycerol testing kit to the growing range of products they offer wine producers. Citric and Tartaric Acid kits are slated for release in August,...
A good article on Business Dictionary.com talks about developing an action plan to accomplish goals. It’s important to have an action plan for every goal you have listed, whether it’s personal or business....
Labeltronix, Southern California’s leading producer of wine industry labels since 1993, has launched the AVA Series, a revolutionary new label material under the company’s hallmark Arctic Shield family...
I received an email today, not in itself unusual as most of the internet world can attest. It wasn’t the email itself that bothered me, but the subject line that I disliked. The subject line was:
“Discover...
