December 10, 2014
Silicon Valley Bank Annual Wine Conditions Survey Results: 82% of wineries reported overall financial health of "good" or better for 2014. This is up 7% over the previous year. This trend is expected to...
December 9, 2014
Top Grapes Strengthen Their Grip: Global wine production is showing signs of increasing homogeneity as international varieties expand their share of the worlds vineyards...
December 2, 2014
Tuesday afternoon nearly 200 people filled the Alexander Valley Ballroom at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel for the second annual Wine Industry Awards and WINnovation Awards.
The North Bay Business Journal...
November 20, 2014
The business of wine is in a continual state of evolution with new markets, new consumer trends, new challenges and new solutions provided from the businesses trying to capture, shape or overcome them....
November 14, 2014
The #1 Wine of the Year: Today my friends, the Wine Spectator, the industry leader in wine reporting, announced the #1 wine of the year. This was a long drawn out process that started with #10 and slowly...
November 13, 2014
Experts Foresee Dynamic Market for Mergers & Acquisitions in 2015:
Wine industry financiers are predicting robust activity for winery and vineyard mergers and acquisitions throughout the remainder of...
December 9, 2013
Trending Story:
Wine M&A momentum set to continue in 2014
There have been few years in recent memory as ripe for merger-and-acquisition activity as 2013 in the wine industry, particularly on the North...
November 15, 2013
Trending Story:
Wine Spectator #1 Wine of 2013 Revealed
This year marks the 25th anniversary of our Top 100 list, where Wine Spectators editors select and highlight the most exciting wines from the thousands...
November 11, 2013
Trending Story:
Second large harvest drives financing demand
Wine industry lenders in the North Bay have seen another uptick in borrower demand in the latter half of 2013, driven in part by a need to process...