No one has more respect for Mother Nature than farmers. In Sonoma County alone, with close to 60,000 acres under vine, almost 70 percent are insured against any number of the vagaries that can occur– and...
Consumers don’t enjoy seeing haze or tartrate crystals floating around in their wines. Therefore, protein stability as well as the cold stabilization of wines happens in cellars all over the world. Winemakers...
The devastating wildfires that hit the North Coast at the tail end of harvest not only burned thousands of homes, but also damaged wineries and sent many more scrambling to secure their facilities and...
By Claudio Cipollina, Business Banking Market Executive, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
In order to properly manage your winery, you likely wear many hats to ensure the business runs smoothly. This includes...
Conn Creek Winery is located on a strategic corner of the Silverado Trail and Conn Creek Road in St. Helena. Founded in 1973 by Bill & Kathy Collins, whose commitment to producing Bordeaux style wines...
“Not all tannins are the same,” explains Dr. Peter Salamone. “There are fermentation tannins, cellaring tannins, and finishing tannins that all add something different to the wine’s flavor profile and...
The rewards and challenges of growing, making, and selling wine can be numerous for grape growers, winery owners, and executives.
Nature has a way shaking us up when we least expect it. Strong winds whipped up huge fires in Napa and Sonoma counties on Sunday night, which led to unthinkable devastation in the early hours of Monday...
The $220 billion economic impact of the U.S. wine industry revealed in WineAmerica’s recent study has grabbed headlines in the media, but the target audience for the information is much narrower, it’s...
Two hundred years after writing, “we could, in the United States, make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe: not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good,” Thomas Jefferson’s dream...
