Wine Business Monthly Archive
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Issues older than 12 months are available as digital magazines,
and as individual articles. Choose your experience.
2020
Winemaking:
2020 WBM Barrel & Oak Survey Report •
More Than Just a Tank •
Cellar Floor Sanitation •
Winemaker Trial: Two Years Later: Attempting Smoke Taint Removal
Grape Growing:
The 2020 Growing Season in Review •
2020 Growing Season: East of the Rockies •
Select Vineyard Management Services •
Is the Increasing Concentration of Atmospheric CO2 Changing the Qualities of Grapes and Wines?
Sales & Marketing:
New Sparkling Packaging Blends Innovation with Traditional Cues •
Retail Sales Analysis: Table Wine Sales Up 17 Percent in September
Business & Technology:
Retirements Leave Void at UC Extension •
Navigating the World of Crop Insurance •
Select Crop Insurance Vendors
Winemaking:
Advances in Artificial Intelligence to Assess Smoke Contamination in Grapevines and Taint in Wines Due to Increased Bushfire Events •
Barrel Focus: Finding the Right Combination of Spices •
Insight & Opinion: Eight Recent Game-Changing Technologies for Small Wineries •
2020 WBM Closure Survey Report: Use of Technical Corks Continues to Rise •
Product Review: An Update on GOfermentor Products •
Select Tank Suppliers •
Winemaker's Trial: Examining the Profile Change from O2 During Fermentation in Cabernet Sauvignon
Grape Growing:
Rootstock: The Biggest Mistake You Can Make in Your Vineyard •
Landscape Diversity Influences Leafhopper Biocontrol
Sales & Marketing:
Behind the Scenes with Chuck House •
2020 PACK Design Awards •
Retail Sales Analysis: Cabernet Leads Wine Sales 15 Percent Higher in August
Business & Technology:
Opportunities Remain, but a Disrupted Market is Less Hospitable to New Brands
Departments:
Heartbreaking Harvest •
News •
People •
Social Distancing •
Winemaker of the Month: Dave Miller
Winemaking:
2020 Wine Industry Leaders •
Oxygen Effects, Sustainability Key Drivers in Closure Development •
Parsec's SAEn5000 System: The Latest Advances in Winemaking Automation •
New Research Finds Oak Compounds That Can Make Wine Taste Bitter •
Winemaker Trial: Oxygen Trials Reveal Effects of Processing Regimes on Chardonnay Style
Grape Growing:
Insight & Opinion: How Should the USA Grape and Wine Sector Respond to the Climate Crisis? •
Irrigating Winegrape Varieties
Sales & Marketing:
Recycling in America: State vs. National Oversight •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Rise 16 Percent in July as Packaging Diversifies
Business & Technology:
2020 Wine Industry Salary Survey Report •
Attracting Qualified Applicants in a COVID-19 World •
Select Recruiting Services
Departments:
Lightning Strikes •
News •
People •
In the Bubble •
Winemaker of the Month: Alan Viader
Winemaking:
Technical Spotlight: Galen Glen Winery •
Looking Inside the Tank: How Homogenous is a Fermentation? •
Winemaker Trial: Dobbes Family Estate Winemaker Tests ß-Glucosidase Use on Riesling to Release Bound Terpenes
Grape Growing:
Update on Electronic Pruners and Tying Tools
Sales & Marketing:
Pandemic Brings Few Major Disruptions to Packaging Vendors •
2020 PACK Design Awards •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Up 21 Percent in June, Splits Lead Growth in Glass
Business & Technology:
2020 Winery Economic Report: •
Top PPP Lenders •
Select Wine Industy Focused Financial Institutions •
2020 WBM Technology Survey Report: Wine Companies Large and Small Plan to Invest in Better DTC Solutions
Departments:
Inside the September Issue •
News •
People •
Travel in Place •
Winemakers of the Month: Earl and Carrie Sullivan
Winemaking:
Varietal Focus: Petite Sirah •
New Ways to Stabilize Tartrates in Wine •
RoboBottle Builds Quality into the Bottling Process •
Canning Across the Country •
How Sulfur Dioxide Addition at Crush Can Impact Wine Yeasts, Bacteria and Sensory Attributes •
Winemaker Trial: Use of PVI/PVP to Remove Copper and Aluminum to Avoid Sulfide Formation
Grape Growing:
Will There Be a Spray-on Cure for Pierce's Disease?
Sales & Marketing:
2020 WBM Packaging Survey Report: Consumer Demand Proves the Key Driver in Winery Packaging Purchases •
New Innovations in Capsule Packaging Include Capsule-Free Alternatives •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Gain 31 Percent; Glass Packaging Rebounds
Winemaking:
Physical Distancing in the Winery •
Winery Sanitation in a COVID-19 World •
Barrel Purchases Clouded by Virus and Recession •
Red Tail Ridge Winery--A Road Less Traveled •
An Integrated Crushpad: Paris Road Vineyards' New Home •
Cool Sanitation Products from Unified 2020 •
Winemaker Trial: Using Engineered Yeast to Create Stylistically Different Chardonnay •
Select Closure Vendors
Sales & Marketing:
Options Abound for Single Serve Packaging •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Gain 26 Percent but Single-Serve Declines
Business & Technology:
2020 Tasting Room and Wine Club Study: Results Show Opportunities for Growth
Winemaking:
Do You Really Know the Alcohol Level in Your Wine? •
Technical Spotlight: Mira Winery •
Tasting the Terroir of Wine Yeast Innovation •
Cork Quality Council's Annual TCA Audit Continues to Show Improvement •
Winemaker Trial: Hye Meadow Winery: Macerating Piquette at 24, 48 and 72 Hours
Grape Growing:
Getting Ready for Harvest--Viticulturally Speaking
Sales & Marketing:
Moving Beyond Stock Bottles: Glass Vendors Offer New, Innovative Designs with Stock-like Pricing •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Rise 24 Percent as Buyers Stock Up
Business & Technology:
Pricing in the Digital World •
The Big Pivot: The Wine Industry's Data-driven Marketing Transformation
Winemaking:
A More Perfect Union •
Sustainability of French Oak Forests •
Winemakers Turn to Hybrid Barrels to Express Individual Styles •
Tanks For All the Grapes •
Winemaker Trial: The Effects of Non-Saccharomyces Yeast in Winemaking
Sales & Marketing:
Virtual Wine Tastings Become Key Consumer Engagement Tool •
How Much Should You Budget for Packaging? •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Decline 2 Percent but Rosé Rises
Business & Technology:
Vineyard Economic Report 2020
Winemaking:
UC Davis Marks 140 Years of Service to the Wine Industry •
Cool Products at the Unified Wine & GrapeSymposium •
New Options in Oak Alternatives •
Technical Spotlight: Aperture Cellars •
Must Keep Pumping Must •
A Technical Review of Parsec SRL and Its Products •
Compressor System Audits •
Winemaker Trial: Cap Management Options for Red Wine Development
Grape Growing:
The Climate is Changing, Whether We Like it or Not •
Sprayer Technology: Every Drop to the Crop •
Sudden Vine Collapse May Be Associated with Combination of Virus Pathogens
Sales & Marketing:
Marketing and Security Drive NFC-enabled Innovation •
Select Bottle Vendors •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Flat as Cans Gain Ground
Departments:
Wine in a Pandemic •
News •
People •
In the Trenches •
Winemaker of the Month: Bill Cooper
Winemaking:
Winemaker Roundtable: Phenolics Testing and Winemaking •
Barrel Building: New Research Shows How Individual Cooper Variability Affects Barrel Composition •
2019 WBM Winery Equipment Survey Report: Steady As She Goes •
Taking Control of Total Package Oxygen •
Technical Spotlight: Anaba Wines •
Montana Wine Industry Starts its Expansion •
Winemaker Trials: Scheid Family Wines Experiments with In-Vineyard Fermentation of Pinot Noir
Grape Growing:
Vineyard Mechanization: Economics and Reality •
Case Study: Pacific Coast Farming Uses SIP-Certified Practices •
Evaluating Grapevine Rootstock Performance in Field Trials •
Vineyard Sensor Technology Highlighted at NGRA Workshop
Winemaking:
The WBM 50 -- Outlook & Trends: Wineries Navigate the Changing Market •
The WBM 50 -- Largest Wineries •
The WBM 50: Winery Profiles •
State of Distribution •
Number of Wineries Reaches More Than 10,470 in United States •
HOT Brands of 2019 •
Roger Boulton, Innovation+Quality Lifetime Innovator Award Winner •
Innovation + Quality Innovative Product Awards •
Winemaker Trials: The Year in Review •
Oak or Barrel? •
UC Davis Researchers Say Blending is Better in Cylindrical, Jacketed Tanks Than Concrete Eggs •
Michigan Wine Industry Moves into 2020 •
A Forum for Winemaking Discovery
Grape Growing:
Leafroll: Still a Problem and Truly an Epidemic Thanks to Vine Mealybug •
Grapevine Virus Management in Lodi •
Recent Developments in the California Grapevine Nursery Industry
Business & Technology:
Wineries Can Generate Tax Savings Through Trials
Winemaking:
Varietal Focus: Pinot Blanc •
The Case for Dedicated Pumps •
Impact of Oxygen on Red Wines Aged in Oak Barrels •
The Brown, the Hazy, the Green and the Gold: Inert Pressing for Aromatic White Wines •
Finger Lakes' Winery Grows from European Roots •
Winemaker Trial: Investigating Sur Lie Aging Treatments
Sales & Marketing:
Larger Wineries Take a Chance on Aluminum Bottles •
Insight & Opinion: Building Equity for the U.S. Wine Brand •
Retail Sales Analysis: Wine Sales Steady as Sauvignon Blanc Grows
Business & Technology:
CFOs Talk Shop: Looming Threats, Data Demands and New Solutions