Please join us at Goosecross Cellars for our next Wine Financial Group meeting, Wednesday, May 21st at 4-6pm.  We will hear from Nova Cadamatre, Master of Wine and Founder & CEO of Trestle Thirty-One Wine and former Director of Winemaking at Robert Mondavi Winery. Globally recognized as one of the most innovative winemakers today, we are excited to hear what our speaker has to share about the ever-evolving wine business of today and tomorrow. We are also pleased to announce that the AWG Wine Financial Group will be partnering with the WFG operated by Women for WineSense for this meeting and future meetings. Visit our website here for more details.

Two K Farms Cidery and Winery 2022 Bubbly Riesling Takes Top Honors November 15, 2024 — Winners have been announced in the 2024 Harvest Challenge Wine Competition. After two spirited days of judging,Two K Farms Cidery and Winery 2022 Bubbly Riesling took the top prize. It was also awarded Best of Show Sparkling Wine. Coming in at 97 points, judges praised the wine for its “Mouth watering citrus and honeysuckle”; “Lingering tropical finish”; and “Perfect bubbles.” They also called it “Well balanced.” With a record number of entries from across the globe, the Harvest Challenge bases judging on a group of vineyards (or even vines) from the same region, belonging to a specific appellation and sharing the same type of soil, weather conditions and grapes that combine to give personality to the wine. In other competitions, terroir is ignored. At the Harvest Challenge, judges taste wines alongside other wines of the same appellation. W

The North Bay’s Leading Construction Company’s New Division Will Help Wineries Assess, Analyze and Optimize Long-Term Facility Investments (Santa Rosa, Calif.) July 22, 2020 – Tony Simmons, president and partner at Nordby Companies, today announced the formation of Nordby Winery Advisors, a new division of the North Bay’s leading construction company. Nordby Winery Advisors is a consultancy focused on assisting wineries with the analysis and assessment of their facilities to optimize long-term facility investments and capital planning. After building more than one hundred wineries, Nordby has a keen sense of a winery’s operational needs. Nordby Winery Advisors will be led by Tony Simmons, who has been with the company for 20 years, and has overseen numerous high-profile winery projects, including several with Duckhorn Wine Company, Foley Family Wines, Jackson Family Wines, as well as Franciscan Winery, Inglenook Winery, Sequoia Grove Winery, Krupp Bro

Afternoon Brief, October 4th

Farmworkers, Napa-Sonoma Trade Groups React to New California Unionization Law: Advocates for farmworker rights in the North Coast are cheering a newly inked compromise in Sacramento that could make it easier for vineyard and other California agricultural workers to unionize...

Afternoon Brief, April 22nd

Farming for the Future Marks New Milestone in Sonoma County: Winegrape commission announces installation and use of ford pro telematics available to all winegrape farmers...

Afternoon Brief, April 19th

For Some Pacific Northwest Winemakers, AVA Wine Labels Are a Challenge: The number of bonded wineries in the United States has increased exponentially over the last four decades. With that growth has come a dramatic rise in designated American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), or appellations of origin, followed by smaller sub-AVAs to differentiate diverse grape-growing regions within them...