January 26, 2026
In the U.S.-Canada Trade War, the Wine and Spirits Industry Is Still Paying the Price: Tariffs and retaliatory boycotts have devastated wine and spirits businesses on both sides of the border. One year...
January 26, 2026
Called “Warm and Approachable Mendocino Leader”
Martha Barra, Proprietor of Barra of MendocinoBarra describes the challenges of 46 years in the grape industry as “Never a dull moment!” She still manages...
January 19, 2026
California Wine Giant Puts One of Its Most Premium Wineries Up for Sale: Imagery Estate Winery in Glen Ellen, which was started in the 1980s by Joe Benziger, whose family also founded nearby Benziger Family...
January 19, 2026
By Laurie Wachter
Few voices are as passionate about Mendocino County as Martha Barra, who, for more than 40 years, has devoted herself to the continuing success of her family’s award-winning winery,...
January 17, 2022
Honoring Mendocino County vintner’s 80th birthday & four decades of organic grape growing
Redwood Valley, Mendocino, January 2022 — Representatives Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson delivered a...




