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Dowsers: Vintners Embrace the Ancient Art for Finding Water
Once deemed witchcraft, dowsing locates underground water sources via a guiding instrument, such as a willow branch, metal rods or pendulum.  By L.M. Archer  As climate change intensifies, many...
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Wine’s Most Inspiring People 2020: Leading with the Future in Mind
As a third-generation descendant of an iconic Napa Valley wine family and the owner of the oldest winery in Napa Valley, Peter Mondavi, Jr. understands the difficulty of keeping a family-owned winery in...
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Afternoon Brief, June 7
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: China’s Wine Imports Continue to Slide The country’s bottled wine imports grew by 2.99% year-on-year in volume to 148.4 million litres...
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CK Mondavi: Rebrand and Doing Business in the Biggest Bracket
Packaging has to two purposes, to protect the product and to sell the product. The second part is more elusive, but no less important in a highly competitive market. The suggested retail price of the CK...
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A Toast to Father & Daughter Winemaking Teams
There’s a new generation in wine. Fathers and Sons working together is nothing new and certainly not exclusive to the wine industry, but women are increasingly breaking into wine, and some of them come...
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Afternoon Brief, February 24
Winemakers Share Best Practices and Equipment That Contribute to Efficiency in the Cellar: The first quarter is arguably one of the busiest periods in the annual cycle for winemakers and their cellar teams....
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Afternoon Brief, October 23
Petaluma Gap AVA Bid Blowing in the Wind: Sonoma County already has 16 AVAs, but growers in the Petaluma Gap are applying for their own sub-appellation...
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Afternoon Brief, July 3
European Grapevine Moth Detected in Sonoma County: The Sonoma County Agricultural Commissioner, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the California Department of Food...
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Afternoon Brief, July 1
Bye bye Bordeaux! The new bull market for wine: When a pack of wine collectors arrived in the private second floor of Manhattan's Bowery Hotel last Thursday for an auction held by Acker Merrall & Condit,...