Tag: Gusmer
Collaboration May Be the Key to Problem Solving and Innovative Success...
As most seasoned winemakers know, each harvest season can bring new and unusual challenges. Issues with color, clarity, or aroma and perfecting the ideal...
UWGS Recap: Back to Business
Quick conversations from the trade show floor
The 2023 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium concluded January 26 and, judging by the comments we received on...
Afternoon Brief, February 11
California's winegrowers may have reached a ceiling the 2019 grape crush was 9.1 percent smaller than the record 2018 crush, and is the smallest overall since 2011, according to the California Department of Food & Agriculture ...
Afternoon Brief, October 21
Wineries Sue Insurers for $20 Million in Smoke Taint Losses - Kunde and Vintage Wine Estates (VWE) have filed suit against their insurers at Sonoma County Superior Court collectively seeking approximately $20 million in losses. The wineries claim their insurers wrongfully refused to pay for smoke taint damages caused by the October 2017 Northern California wildfires ...
Afternoon Brief, March 26
New Collective Brings Applied Research, Collaboration to Winemaking Community: Winemakers have been long been among the original experimenters; that is, those willing to employ trial and error methodologies and information gleaned from other colleagues to continually improve their vintages ...
Afternoon Brief, November 7
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John Fetzer Sells Mendocino’s Saracina Vineyards to the Taub Family’s Heritance Vintners
The Taub family, owners of Palm...
Afternoon Brief: September 26
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Napa's Bremer Case May Have Larger Winery Visitation Implications
Napa Countys court case against Bremer Family Winery east...
Afternoon Brief, March 15
French Wine Capitalizing on U.S. Drinking Trends: Major trends in the U.S. wine market including premiumization, sparkling wine, and rosé play to the strengths of French wine leading to a 14.2% value growth, surpassing runner-up New Zealand at 13.7%, to claim the highest import growth by nation over the past 52 weeks according to Nielsen data*...
Afternoon Brief, February 13
Napa, Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon Winegrape Pricing Pushes North Coast to New Record: While North Coast winegrape tonnage last year came in slightly below average, the value of the regions 2016 crop hit a new record of $1.45 billion, getting a big boost from double-digit price increases in cabernet sauvignon grapes from Napa and Sonoma counties, according to figures released Friday...
Afternoon Brief, January 30
Is the Intelligent Vineyard the Future of Winegrape Growing?: Phil Asmundson is by no means a veteran viticulturist, but a half-dozen years ago, after watching his wife and business partner, Kim, augering soil samples, he recalls turning to her and saying, "No offense, but there's got to be a better way"...
Afternoon Brief, November 16
In Pursuit of Balance Wine Group Calls It Quits with Last Tasting: To a passerby, the scene would have looked unremarkable: another wine tasting at another fancy San Francisco restaurant...
Afternoon Brief, August 20
3rd Annual North Coast Wine Industry Expo Attendee Registration Now Open:
The Wine Industry Network (WIN) announced attendee registration for the 2014 North Coast Wine Industry Expo to be held on December 4th opened today...
Afternoon Brief, June 11
Russian River Valley winemakers consider split into neighborhoods:
Having celebrated 30 years as an official American Viticultural Area last year, the Russian River Valley can say that many of its visionaries' dreams have come true...
Afternoon Brief, Mar. 5
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‘New California’ Tasting To Launch In London
The New California event will take place on 22 April and will feature a day of tastings, seminars...
Afternoon Brief, Feb. 26
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US wine exports set record as California drought persists
Exports of wine from the US jumped by 16% last year, show official figures that...