Unified Wine & GrapeGrowers Symposium Takes Over Downtown Sacramento
The streets flooded with winemakers, vintners, grape-growers, agricultural manufacturers and wine industry icons as over 12,200 people gathered for the Unified Wine & Grapegrowers Symposium Jan. 25 through 27. This annual event, always held at Sacramento’s convention center had it all from tractors to tasting rooms. Sponsored by California Association of Wine Grape Growers this … Read more
I’m So Glad I Live In California: The Three-Tier System & HR 5034, a Novice’s Take
So it turns out for all you lucky Californian’s, we all didn’t know how well we had it till now. It has been a great long discussion for some months now about HR 5034, a bill that would revolutionize the alcohol trade, specifically effecting the small business owners of wine, beer and spirits. I’m a … Read more
Are Tasting Rooms Going to Start Becoming Regulated as if their Bar’s?
CRISTA JEREMIASON / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Sarah Blake of San Francisco, left, Matt Bartoe of Ventura and Courtney Warusso of San Francisco listen to a band on the patio at Imagery Winery. In efforts to be conscious of drunk wineos on the road Sonoma County planning commissioner Dick Fogg is looking into regulating hours that … Read more
Could Innovative Packaging Sell Mediocre Wine? I’d buy it, if only for the bottle!
One of my favorite things to talk about in the wine trade isn’t even the wine is self, there is volumes to say about wine, but less people talk about what the wine is housed in, and how much it affects their buying choices. In a recent article put out by the Financial Times “A … Read more
Interesting Political Insight to the Future of AVA’s
In the following article put out by the press democrat they discuss the issue of Sub-appellations within AVA’s. For those all wine-geeked out this isn’t just a wine identification debate but also a political questions as well. Sonoma includes many popular wine areas notably Rockpile, Carneros, Alexander Valley, and most famously the Russian River Valley. … Read more
New Generation Vintners and Growers Exchange Dialogue on California Wine Trends
Dec 1, 2009 Contact: Gladys Horiuchi of Wine Institute, communications@wineinstitute.org, 415/356-7525 or Sharlene Garcia of CAWG, Sharlene@cawg,org, 916/924-5370 Click here to view New Generation event video. More speaker videos below. SAN FRANCISCO—Twenty “new generation” vintners and growers from throughout California convened at Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, November 17, to share their perspectives on California … Read more
Outstanding article on the current state of the wine industry in relation to water – West Coast Grapegrowers Confront Water Shortage
West Coast Grapegrowers Confront Water Shortage Farmers, businesses and residents fight over dwindling supply; climate change will only exacerbate the problem Harris Meyer Posted: October 29, 2009 Confronted by a three-year West Coast drought, grapegrowers and winemakers in Northern California and Oregon are taking emergency measures to reduce water use. Some are pulling up vineyards … Read more
Buyer Always Beware, Especially When the Advising Are Wearing Shortty Shorts!
Now for a self-professed wine snobby, who’s still admitted always learning, it was a real shot to my pride to be unintentionally duped by a Whole Foods wine store clerk on 24th St in San Francisco, who was wearing shortty shorts!! The bottle was an unremarkable 2008 Bordeaux farrrr to young to be drank, and … Read more
Let’s here it for Boxed Wines!
While encountering a taste experience for the “New Americana” cuisine that San Francisco has to offer, I got a chance to try a new kind of wine. The event was hosted by Black Box Wines. Now at first mention I thought this sounded like another one of the many “prestigious” wine labels, until I discovered, … Read more
Wine Closures, the Ultimate Wine Taboo!
Wine closures are an interesting subject, and one of great importance. Everyone dismisses them until asked directly the question, “To Cork or not to Cork?” From the initial question this becomes a very tense question for some and a new question to be answered to others. After every conversation I’ve had about this topic it … Read more
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