Wine Industry News

10/15/21	California Harvests Raise Optimism Levels In central California AVAs, the later harvest is looking good - but they're not out of the woods yet.
10/15/21	Napa Redux: A Judgment of Paris burnout? - Dan Berger - napa register - paywall To recast a Hamletian line, dost they promote too much?
10/15/21	After all the hoopla and celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Judgment of Paris, one had to wonder if there was anything new left to say for the 45th - Sasha Paulsen - napa register - paywall Steven Spurrier passed away last March but his widow sent a message of thanks. ... Patricia Gallagher, who has lived her adult life in France, did come over for the lunch. ... "I thought of it," she explained, referring to the tasting. "It was my idea."
10/15/21	Enough With the Seltzer: The Booze-Free Cocktail Has Arrived - new york times - paywall In the last five years, at least five new dry stores that sell alcohol-free wines, craft beers and bottled drinks have opened in New York City.
10/15/21	Why So Many Products on Grocery Store Shelves Claim They Help Your Immune System - wall street journal - paywall In the Covid-19 era, consumers are eager to bolster their immune systems and companies are flooding grocery shelves with products that claim to help
10/15/21	Oregon wine industry loses Maria Stuart of R. Stuart and Company Always the entrepreneurs, the Stuarts opened one of the first wine bars in 2007 on historic Third Street in downtown McMinnville. Maria quickly gained a reputation as one of the valley's most gracious hosts.
10/15/21	Alamitos Vineyards Appoints George Troquato to Lead Winemaking at New Production Facility in New Almaden ... in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Troquato will lend his expertise sourcing grapes from the Santa Lucia Highlands, Stags Leap, and Coombsville.
10/15/21	English & Spanish Seminars on Climate Resilience Offered at ROOTSTOCK 2021 CK The Napa Valley Grapegrowers (NVG) and Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation (FWF) announce ROOTSTOCK 2021, to be held on November 10-12 at the Yountville Community Center in Yountville, CA. ROOTSTOCK promises educational tracks in English and Spanish: a leadership and management conference in Spanish, and provocative panel discussions and continuing education sessions in English.
10/15/21	Champagne prices rising fast on fine wine market, says Bordeaux Index Price gains for top vintage Champagnes have been a key trend on the fine wine market in recent weeks, suggests new data, following on from a good performance in the first half of the year.
10/15/21	American bumblebees have disappeared from these 8 states. Now they could face extinction. Dwindling populations of the American bumblebee and their complete disappearance from eight states has led to a call for the bee to be placed under the Endangered Species Act before they face extinction.
10/15/21	Sokol Blosser Releases New 2019 Bluebird Cuvée Brut Sparkling Wine Bluebird Cuvée Brut Sparkling is a proprietary assemblage of Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling, Müller-Thurgau and Muscat. The wine is made in the Méthode Traditionnelle style and offers aromatics of lychee and fresh-baked baguette and notes of spiced apple cider and ripe pear.
10/15/21	Rapid Response to New Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Infestation in Solano County five glassy-winged sharpshooters (GWSS) were found on two different traps in a residential part of Vacaville
10/15/21	Washington wineries considering dramatic changes for climate change Warmer summers - and winters - force Washington vintners to reconsider their crops.
10/15/21	The #1 Wine to Buy This Fall at Trader Joe's, According to Employees the 2019 Trader Joe's Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Sonoma County: $9.99.
10/15/21	Hill Country Winery Southold Farm + Cellar Closes Wine Restaurant After Just 7 Months The Kitchen at Southold Farm + Cellar was open for just over seven months
10/15/21	Deere workers go on strike after UAW fails to reach deal Earlier this month, the world's largest farm equipment maker and the UAW union reached an agreement after weeks of negotiation on wages and other benefits, but 90% of the union's workers voted against the deal. read more
10/15/21	The People and Lands of Chile's Indigenous Wine Movement Long shut off from land and resources, some Indigenous communities find a path in the wine industry.
10/15/21	The Judgment of Napa: Tasting Napa Blind Against the World's Greatest Wines Despite the sad passing of Steven Spurrier in March and further postponement, the event finally was held last week in Napa. A number of different activities accompanied the event, the first of which was a vertical tasting of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars' SLV, the 1971 bottling of which "won" the original blind tasting on that fateful day in Paris in 1976.
10/15/21	U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Major Wine Shipping Case The country's highest court will not decide Sarasota Wine Market v. Schmitt, upholding Missouri's law banning consumer direct-shipping alcohol sales from out-of-state retailers
10/15/21	Is This Luxury Wine Company Losing Its Bouquet? A sale of common stock triggered a sharp after-hours drop, raising the question of price sustainability.