Tag: Bill Dodd
Afternoon Brief, March 5
Vintage Wine Estates Purchases Wine Packaging Pioneer Alloy Wine Works: Vintage Wine Estates is excited to announce the acquisition of Alloy Wine Works, one of the first innovators of fine varietal, appellated wines available in aluminum cans...
Napa Valley Vintners Kicks Off 75th Anniversary Year with Joe Lacob...
A trip down memory lane and preparing for the future of Napa Valley at the NVV's annual meeting
1/22/2019 - St Helena, CA – Excellence,...
Wine’s Most Inspiring People 2018: Pioneer and Champion of Hillside Grapegrowing
Since purchasing his vineyard at the top of Spring Mountain in 1970, Stuart Smith has become the leading voice of the hillside grower. While Smith believed that the best grapes come from the mountains, a hypothesis had been written that vineyards on hillsides are detrimental to the land. In response, Smith began arguing in favor of hillside vineyards and land-use issues. Being the leading voice was “thrust upon me,” Smith shared. “It was not my intent. When I first got a permit to log the property from Department of Forestry, I was warned that there would be protesters once I brought out a chainsaw.”
Afternoon Brief, January 5
2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Begins Today: The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition begins today in this northern Sonoma County community, and it continues to break records...
Afternoon Brief, February 12
Canada's agriculture minister is threatening tariffs on California wine if the U.S. doesn't repeal restrictive meat-labeling laws costing Canadian farmers billions...
Afternoon Brief, April 21
Find the Tools to Grow Your Boutique Wine Business at the Craft Beverage Expo:
As a boutique label, you may be feeling more pressure as imports and big wineries try to dominate the retail shelves and push the craft wineries to the side...
