Tag: Italy

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Red Blotch Rising A new virus that started spreading across California vineyards - and the nation - in...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Napa Kicks Off Another "Classic" Harvest After nearly five years of drought made every Napa Valley harvest kickoff...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: At Wine and Weed Symposium, Vintners Find Themselves Surrounded by Economic Opportunity Wine professionals found themselves surrounded by...

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 Brands Might Be Sniffing Around Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, the umbrella for a...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: What's Craft Beer's Bigger Threat? Wine, Whiskey, Weed...or All 3? There are more breweries in existence today than...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Registration Opens for First Wine & Weed Symposium The Wine Industry Network today announced that registration is open...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: 2016 California Wine Sales in U.S. Hit New Record: 238 Million Cases with Retail Value of $34.1...

Sex, Love and the $1000 Breakfast Wine I had a $1000 bottle of wine for breakfast. I'm going to tell you all about the wine: how it was made, what it tastes like, and why it worries me about Napa Valley's most iconic wine...

Value Wins at Sonoma Wine Auction Many people told me this off the record so I'm going to lead with it: the Sonoma County Barrel Auction is more fun than Premiere Napa Valley...

A Foot in Two Industries: How Wine and Weed Cross-Pollinate Cannabis has long been grown in the shadows, under the canopies of the Emerald Triangle, while wine grapes were grown in the neighboring counties of Sonoma and Napa in the open, under the warm California sun...

A Woman's Death Sorting Grapes Exposes Italy's "Slavery" Her husband can still recall how Paola Clemente used to set two alarms to make sure she woke in the middle of the night - 1:50 a.m. - to catch the private bus that would take her and dozens of other women to the vineyards...

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...

New Company Breaks Barriers to Distribution for Small Producers Consolidation continues to make distributors bigger and fewer while the number of producers grow with new small producers enter the market. The vast majority of wineries in the US produce less than 5,000 cases, and theyve been effectively blocked from three-tier distribution because distributor giants wont take them on, but thats about to change...

Does Napa Have too Much Cab?: Does Napa Valley have too much Cabernet? And does it charge too much for it? These questions were not on the agenda, but unexpectedly popped up this week at a Napa Valley Grapegrowers' conference...