Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Friday, September 12, 2025

Air Travel Into Sonoma County

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Southwest Airlines has just announced upcoming service to STS, Sonoma County's commercial airport. SW will be offering flights to and f...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Wineries Moving Into Distillation

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  If you can't beat 'em ...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Agrivoltaics

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An issue with solar panel fields is the amount of land they can take up. You've maybe seen solar panels over parking lots. What if you c...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Spotted Lanternflies, Just What the West Coast Doesn't Need

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The invasive plant-hopping Spotted Lanternfly , indigenous to Asia, has made its way to the eastern U.S., probably via a cargo ship from Asi...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Wine Industry: "The Sky is Falling"

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Not quite.   This has been seen before, and the wine industry recovered, usually to get even bigger than before. That doesn't mean it...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Retrenching in the Wine Biz

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Some of the major players in the industry are reducing their footprint in the wine business. This is a sign of uncertainty in the future of ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Alcohol Warning Labels

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  The outgoing Surgeon General would like to put cancer warning labels on all alcoholic beverages. Dr. Brian Lawenda, a Harvard-trained onco...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Big Wine Stories of 2024

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It's the end of the year (OMG, another one?) so let's see what the big news was from 2024 in Sonoma County and the rest of Californi...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

An Oversupply of Wine

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  You have probably heard that we have too much wine in the pipeline, too many vineyards, and various dire warnings about oversupply. Some ...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Napa Tourism Bounces Back

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There's been plenty of bad news out of the wine industry recently. It's not all gloomy, however, as Napa seems to be doing fine. The...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

The Sell Off of Vintage Wine Estates

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The bankruptcy sale of VWE holdings of Santa Rosa, CA has taken place. Here are the bigger names and where they are going.
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Top Concerns of the Wine Business

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What are the top concerns of 2024 for those in the wine business? Per a survey from innovint.us , the top five are: Maintaining or growing s...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Signs of Weaker Wine Demand

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Current thinking in the wine biz says we are in for slowing times. As I've asked before, is it a permanent slowdown or is it related to ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Couples That Drink Together Live Longer

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Data from a Heath and Retirement Study shows that couples who drank together live longer. This conclusion was based on moderate drinking, e...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Winery & Vineyard Real Estate

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What does the Napa and Sonoma real estate market for wineries and vineyards look like now, in mid-2024? Here's a little info from Vintro...
Friday, July 5, 2024

NEWS: Foppiano Winery Acquired

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Foppiano Winery, established by Giovanni Foppiano in 1896, has sold to a local wine company. There have been public family squabbles for sev...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Sonoma County's Point Fire

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Northern Sonoma County was hit with an early season large wildfire, as have many places in the state. Here's the current status as I...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

So, Is Drinking Good or Bad For You?

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Scientific opinion on whether you should drink, and how much, has been all over the place. What's going on? The science hasn't chang...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Amazon and Alcohol Shipping

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  With the Pandemic in 2020 Amazon put out a proposal to modernize alcohol shipping rules that would allow them to get into the business. Wh...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Ken Wilson's Expanding Empire

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  Maybe you've heard of Wilson, Mazzocco , or Soda Rock wineries. That's just three of the eleven in the Wilson Artisan Wine colle...