Ten Ways Wineries Can Evolve From Selling Bottles to Creating Experiences That Resonate With a New Generation. If I told you a winery just opened with no vineyard, no winemaker on staff, and no interest in talking about terroir… would you visit? What if I told you it had a silent disco in the...

Accurate, available and cost-effective diagnostic tools have never been more critical to economic survival than in 2020. While the world waits for a COVID-19 vaccine, large segments of our economy have been closed or hamstrung by government restrictions or voluntary measures implemented to slow the...

Former Dolphins Quarterback and Hall of Famer Dan Marino and former NFL Quarterback Damon Huard will Join Wine Watch for a Virtual Wine Tasting to Raise Critical Funds for Autism and Related Disabilities February 15th – WHAT: The Dan Marino Foundation presents Passing Time: A Virtual Wine Tasting &...

When I start feeling optimistic, I imagine one or two people might read these blogs, (although I have a sneaking suspicion that they sit out on the internet equivalent of a doctors waiting room table between the large type Reader’s Digest and June 2004 People magazines). But I wouldn’t be able to...

It’s December in the laboratory and the last four months have gone by in a blur, passing by in an instant and simultaneously, so slowly. In the months running back and forth with samples from the production floor to the lab, and standing at the lab bench, performing manual TAs, pHs, FSO2s, and more...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s preliminary 2022 grape crush figure, published February 10th, totalled 3,349,662 tons, slightly lighter than anticipated. The lightness of the crop – the fourth in succession below the 4-million-ton mark and the smallest since 2011 – was...

US Wine Industry Enters Negative Growth Phase; Adoption by New and Younger Consumers Is Lagging NAPA, Calif. – January 18, 2023 –Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and the US premium wine industry, today released its 2023 State of the US Wine Industry Report. The...

This is the time of year when people begin abandoning their computers to spend time with friends and family, so before you go I want to wish you a wonderful holiday season regardless of what you may celebrate--Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or simply the end of one year seguing into the next. How...

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Meets with WineAmerica and Waterloo Container WATERLOO, NY–Senate Majority Chuck Schumer met on Friday, December 2 with leaders of WineAmerica, the National Association of American Wineries, and owners of Waterloo Container, a large supplier of bottles to the American...

Automation in the winemaking lab has become a mainstay in our busy times. Big wineries have teams of enologists and banks of automated measurement tools, while small wineries often send testing out to labs that employ these same devices. Winemakers doing the lab work themselves and those utilizing...