Wednesday, October 31, 2018

How Constellation Brands Sees the Future

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C onstellation Brands is one of the largest owners of alcohol brands in the world. Of the over two dozen wine labels there is Robert Mondavi...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Napa Grape Prices

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Napa Valley's grape prices hit a record high in 2017. Yeah, this seems to happen most years. The total value was $750 million, up about ...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Wine and Food--Not Such a Big Deal in the U.S.

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Americans don't pay much attention to putting main dishes with side dishes and then with the beverage. That's why we have Coke and ...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

When it Comes to Eating and Drinking ...

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It's the good life. We are fortunate to be consumers during this age when micro, rather than global, is the in thing.  Sure, the globa...
Monday, October 22, 2018

The Wine Country Lifestyle

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People visit the wine country maybe more for the lifestyle than just the wine tasting.  So if you've never visited know that it's no...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Petaluma Gap

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Sonoma County's newest American Viticultural Area (AVA) is called Petaluma Gap. Actually, it's Sonoma's and Marin's newest A...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Visiting Sonoma County? Stay in Petaluma

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Town of Petaluma near the bottom of the county map Click on map to enlarge If you're visiting the area chances are you'll find ...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2018

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  The first weekend of October every year is a chance to taste the gold medal winners from the Harvest Fair judging. I've been attending...
Friday, October 12, 2018

2018 Harvest -- Looking Good

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It seems Mother Nature has been quite good to the North Coast (including Sonoma County) wine grape growers this year. It's been a long g...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Dear Wine Marketers, This is Long Overdue

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This is about that uncomfy subject of race. Wine ads seem mostly aimed at upper or at least upper-middle class white people. Whether the mar...
Monday, October 8, 2018

U.S. Wine Sales Growing, But More Slowly

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Per the Beverage Information Group , an industry information source, 2017 saw an increase in wine purchases, but at a slower rate. 2016 sa...
Friday, October 5, 2018

A Loss and a Win for California Wine Exports

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Trade wars. It should be obvious there will be no winners in the short-term, at least. California produces about 90% of America's wine a...