2024 may well be one of the most challenging years in recent history for the American wine industry. Let’s change that. Multiple Alarm Bells At the recent Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, several prominent experts in various fields sounded the alarms during the enormously popular...
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From France to the New World, the small, family-run cooperage has pioneered premium barrel making for fine wines. NAPA – April 7th, 2021 — Dargaud and Jaeglé, one of the world’s oldest wine barrel cooperages, celebrates 100 years in 2021. The company not only survived a world war, the...
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Napa Valley Robot ‘Sommelier’ Spurs Debate on AI in the Wine Business: “He doesn’t break glasses,” Maria Reznikova said, citing a bonus with hiring her new staffer — a robot “sommelier” that has become quite an attraction for gawkers shopping on Calistoga’s Lincoln Avenue...