Tag: San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Afternoon Brief, January 18
Silicon Valley Bank Predicts Consumers Will Pay Slightly More for U.S. Wine in 2017: Silicon Valley Bank released its annual State of the Wine Industry Report today. The 16th annual State of the Wine Industry report combines SVBs expertise in the U.S. wine business with proprietary research to deliver forecasts and predictions for the year ahead in wine...
Afternoon Brief, January 11
San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Draws 6,850 Entries: This week's San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition won't break last year's record, but the 6,850 entries still makes it the largest in the United States...
Afternoon Brief, December 29
10 Timeless Lessons About Business from the Founders of the Biggest Wine Brand in America: Last month I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, the founders of the world's most popular wine brand, Barefoot Wine...
Unprecedented! America’s Best Rosé Wins Again
Barnard Griffin Rose of Sangiovese Wins for 10th Time In San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
RICHLAND, Wash., June 9, 2016 -- Barnard Griffin has won...
Medals for the Mountains: Santa Cruz Mountains Strikes Gold at 2016...
Longtime Santa Cruz Vintner, Tony Craig, wins Best Red of Show
January 21, 2016, Santa Cruz, CA — The entire Santa Cruz Mountains wine...
Reustle’s Cool Climate Syrah wins 2 Double Gold Medals
at California's Prestigious San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
- Reustle-Prayer Rock Vineyards earned two DOUBLE GOLD medals at San Francisco Chronicle's 2016 Wine Competition, the...
Afternoon Brief, January 8
Napa and Sonoma Vintners See a Surge in Vine-Killing Pierce's Disease: Thousands of vines were uprooted in 2015, raising fears that warm weather is allowing the disease to spread...
Afternoon Brief, February 19
Fire gutted a vineyard barn in southern Napa on Tuesday night, destroying 11 vehicles, Cal Fire reported. The blaze at Hyde Vineyards on Old Sonoma Road destroyed a pickup, two cars, two tractors, one forklift and five ATVs...
Afternoon Brief, January 20
Napa's Next Cult Cab Waiting in the Wings: What's the next Napa cult wine? That question may be answered next month at Premiere Napa Valley. Last year, 11 Napa wines sold for more than $1000 a bottle at the event...
Afternoon Brief, January 16
Wine Anarchy on French TV Talk Show: A televised discussion about the Charlie Hebdo attacks risks censure by flouting a French law banning wine on TV...
A televised discussion about the Charlie Hebdo attacks risks censure by flouting a French law banning wine on TV...
Afternoon Brief, January 15
American wineries increased the dollar value of their direct-to-consumer shipments by an unprecedented 15.5% in 2014, with an equally record-breaking increase in the volume of those shipments...
Afternoon Brief, January 13
Napa Valley might have spearheaded California's emergence on the world wine scene in the past 40 years, but it is neighbouring Sonoma that appears to have seen stronger interest in vineyard acquisitions in the last couple of years...
Afternoon Brief, November 21
Napa Winemakers Argue Over the Valley's Visual Image:
If you've never heard the term "viewshed" - like "watershed" - welcome to Napa Valley. The essence is that Napa's bucolic look is an asset that can't be messed with...
Afternoon Brief, November 17
California drought puts water thievery on rise:
As California's drought has grown more extreme this year, so have efforts to obtain water some now veering toward the criminal...
