Friday, April 28, 2017

Serving Wine in California

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California is fairly liberal when it comes to alcohol laws, but being booze it still has its quirky moments. For instance, you can buy alc...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Wine Marketing - The Ignored Generation

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Gen-X: Stuck in the middle. Yep, when it comes to marketing, wine included, it appears you can't talk enough about the Millennials and...
Monday, April 24, 2017

The REAL Benefit of Red Wine

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V arious studies over the years have hinted at red wine's health benefits ranging from curing cancer to lowering cholesterol to helping ...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Winery Goes to Pot

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  The well-known Fetzer Vineyards of Redwood Valley in Mendocino County has changed hands. The Fetzer family actually sold their namesake pr...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Material Other Than Grapes in Your Wine

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There are been various scares about weird stuff in your wine from birds to arsenic. As per usual when the Internet gets hold of a great head...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Traditions Die Hard in the Wine Industry

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Many industries are tied to traditions, not just wine. Perhaps living near where so much technology innovation takes place it's sometime...
Friday, April 14, 2017

That's a Lot of Wine!

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In 2016 Americans drank 4.24 billion bottles of wine. That's 13.3 bottles for every man, woman, and child. I'm assuming some of thos...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

19th Century Sonoma County Restaurants

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Here's something different to do when visiting: Check out an old, historic eatery while in the area. Sonoma County has a few that have b...
Monday, April 10, 2017

It's just planting grapes, then pick 'em and add yeast, right?

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 You think growing wine grapes and making wine is pretty simple and still like it was hundreds of years ago? I mean, you stick some vines in...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Premium Wine vs Value Wine

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  In the last five years the California wine grape market has increased a half-billion dollars to three billion total. There are two distinc...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Important Brews to the Craft Beer Scene

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In the U.S. craft beer sales by volume went from 5.7% of the beer market in 2011 to 12.3% in 2016 -- five short years later. In dollars cr...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Big Wine

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Big Wine controls what wines you drink. This is especially true if you're buying off the retail shelf. Big Wine is comprised of 30 wine...