Friday, February 26, 2021

Missing Barrel Tasting This Year?

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  The Wine Road's Barrel Tasting event, usually the first two weekends of March, is another victim to the pandemic. Yes, it's such a...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Wine in Single Serving Cans

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The Feds in the TTB agency control all things alcohol. They recently ruled to allow small single serving packaging of wine to be sold indivi...
Monday, February 22, 2021

This Might Change Alcohol Advertising

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 A big shift in the American alcohol industry. Will you soon see an ad with a group of women drinking Bud while watching TV? Probably not, b...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Tough Year for Many Wineries and Growers

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The local vineyard owners are taking a hit now and the wineries will later as the 2020 harvest was about half what it should have been. Why?...
Monday, February 15, 2021

E-commerce Retail Sales

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You can easily pick out the Great Recession and the Covid recession and see the difference in the two. This is all retail, not just wine. Cl...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Sonoma County's Moon Mountain Distict

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Moon Mountain became its own American Viticultural Area in 2013. It's a sub-appellation of Sonoma Valley and the grapes from there were...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Bucking the Alcohol Trend

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 During Covid the consumption of alcohol has dropped 8% in the key world markets. In a couple countries, South Africa and India, the governm...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Sonoma Valley Natural Wine

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Natural winemaking is a low-intervention method of making wine. Generally, you ferment organic grapes with natural yeast and don't add ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

The Bacigalupi Family of Sonoma County

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One of the hard-working wine families of Sonoma County, the Bacigalupis, have a slightly different story in that the women of the family are...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Wineries Open for Business! (Again)

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   The California governor recently allowed the counties to reopen. This was probably because of a combination of hospitals seeing fewer pat...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The Demographic of Wine Reviewers

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First of all let me say that I am an old white guy. That's the same demographic that gives points and gold medals to wines.
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Gallo's Control of the Wine Market

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Unless you're in the wine biz you probably missed the huge sale of wine brands between the two biggies in the U.S. wine market, Constell...