Tag: Sonoma County

Wine & Weed Symposium Offers Pot of Gold Bud break is taking on a whole new meaning in California, where voters legalized the recreational use of cannabis in November. Opportunities form the focus of the Wine & Weed Symposium, which takes place on August 3 at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel in Santa Rosa, California...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Are Flying Vineyard Drones Creating Better Wine? California's Bennett Valley is a portrait of pastoral perfection. Near Santa...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Fire Nears Historic Vineyard and Wineries Cal Fire's San Luis Obispo Unit reported Monday morning that the Alamo...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Are Hand-Picked Grapes Better Than Machine-Harvested? Marketers love to affix the word "hand" to imply artisan craftmanship behind...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Constellation Paid $60 Million for Napa Cabernet Star Schrader Cellars Wine Spectator has learned that Constellation Brands paid...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Another Oregon Winery Plucked by a California Estate A boutique, family-owned California winery has acquired an Oregon counterpart,...

Are Napa, Sonoma Vineyards Getting too Pricey? At a wine industry event about 10 years ago, there was a lot of discussion about top Napa Valley vineyards setting new records, with some selling for as much as $300,000 an acre...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Restaurant Tables May Have Turned for Small Family Run Wineries According to Nation's Restaurant News, for chain restaurants...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Constellation Brands Has Better Options Than Rumored Brown-Forman Deal Earlier this week, Brown-Forman was rising on news Constellation...

Do you think that pot will take a huge bite out of wine sales or is this just a tempest in a teapot? Maybe. Maybe not. It depends on which state you’re in, literally and figuratively.

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Wine Industry Racing to Meet $10–$20 a Bottle Demand Consumer thirst for wines retailing for more than $10...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Truett-Hurst Reports Sales Decrease Truett-Hurst Inc. of Healdsburg on Thursday reported that its net sales for the past...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Worker Killed in Fall at Sutter Home Winery in St. Helena A worker installing refrigeration piping at Sutter...

We Know What We Don't Know About Wine's Future According to Lee Hannah and Terra Alpaugh, "Everything You Know About Wine is Wrong." That is the title of their Wine Economics Working Paper #204...

Napa Vineyard Sale's Knock-on Price Effect Gallo's big Napa Valley vineyard purchase this week will have repercussions on luxury wine for years to come. At least 90 wineries are affected, and high-end consumers will be too...