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Afternoon Brief, September 9

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TRENDING STORY   Pandemic Forces Change in Wineries’ Wholesale Strategy Dale Stratton is the owner of Five Points Consulting, LLC, a 35-plus year veteran on the wholesale...

Afternoon Brief, September 8

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A Scientific Case for ‘Fingerprinting’ Terroir in a California AVA: For 30 years, members of the Russian River Valley Winegrowers Association (RRVWA) have attempted to quantify and qualify the different Pinot Noir profiles their American Viticultural Area (AVA) produces...

Afternoon Brief, September 4

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ABC Agents Will Be Out Labor Day Weekend: The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) today announced it will have agents out working to keep the public safe through enforcement of alcoholic beverage laws on Labor Day weekend...

Afternoon Brief, September 3

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Cowboys Fighting Fires in Napa County: Amateur firefighters are bulldozing their way through the California blazes, but some of the professionals don't seem too pleased...

Afternoon Brief, September 2

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Walla Walla Winery Fights Back About Poor Rating from BBB: A Walla Walla winery recently received a “F” rating from the Better Business Bureau after multiple complaints alleging orders were not delivered...

Afternoon Brief, September 1

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NJ’s Largest Wine and Spirits Wholesalers to Pay $4M Each for Unfair Trade Scheme: New Jersey’s two largest wine and spirits wholesalers must pay $4 million each – the largest in Alcoholic Beverage Control history – to resolve findings that they unfairly favored their largest retail customers, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Tuesday...

Afternoon Brief, August 31

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Wineries Need to Prep to Sustain Rise in Online Sales Beyond the Coronavirus Pandemic: In April and May, as the state was tossed into shutdown mode triggered by the coronavirus, the mandate may have provided a turning point, if not a wakeup call, for the wine industry when it comes to direct-to-consumer sales, according to the CEO of a Napa-based leader in selling wine online...

Afternoon Brief, August 28

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How Metallica Secretly Filmed a Concert at a Sonoma Winery: Walkers along Sonoma’s Denmark Road at sunset on Aug. 10 wouldn’t have believed what they were seeing had they even known to look...

Afternoon Brief, August 27

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Crop Insurance Fears for Smoke-Hit Vineyards: Growers affected by the California wildfires should take a close look at the small print on their insurance policies...

Afternoon Brief, August 26

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Smoke Taint Looms Large for California Wine: I don't know how many of California's wine grapes right now are affected by smoke taint. Nobody does. But I know some are everybody does, and that's the problem...

Afternoon Brief, August 25

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Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Wine Industry Embracing Technology and Innovation to Drive Sales There will be numerous changes that history will associate...

Afternoon Brief, August 24

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Napa, North Bay Growers Face a Softened, Fluid Market for Premium Grapes: Napa Valley’s growers are going into harvest now punctuated by fire with as uncertain a market for their grapes as there’s ever been, industry experts say...

Afternoon Brief, August 21

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Wineries Harvest While Wine Country Burns: Large swathes of California continued to burn on Thursday from fires ignited by more than 10,000 lightning strikes. Firefighters are desperately overworked. Yet, even as homes and a hospital were evacuated, many wineries report clear skies and no smoke in the vineyard...

Afternoon Brief, August 20

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Wildfires Rage in Multiple California Wine Regions: Blazes in Napa, Sonoma, Santa Cruz and Santa Lucia are burning out of control, threatening wineries, vineyards and thousands of homes...

Afternoon Brief, August 19

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Hennessey Fire Threatens Napa's Oldest Family-Owned Winery: There’s a saying in Aimee Sunseri’s family: never skip a harvest. It’s perhaps especially poignant advice because six generations’ worth of winemakers and grape growers have heeded it...