Vino 101

<p >Esther Mobley of the San Francisco Chronicle reports on the sale of the Robert Sinskey Vineyard Winery, tasting room and vineyards. However billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick elected to not purchase the brand...

<p >With Christmas around the corner we put together a list of some of our favorite wines for the holidays. The Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes hasn’t slowed the uptick in wine prices. It can be fairly...

<p >A recent article by Colman Andrews titled Paradise Lost: The Flame Out of Napa Valley’s Iconic Wine Country raised a number of eyebrows in Northern California. The article’s main themes being that the Valley’s...

<p >Do you prefer your wines younger or do you have a taste for aged wines? I’m firmly in both camps having developed a palate for both. As bottled red wines age they give up some of their youthful freshness, the...

<p >Bill and I get together for a new podcast after an extended absence. On this podcast you can find out where we’ve been, what’s new in wine country and what we’ve been drinking and eating.</p><p >It’s summertime so...

<p >Consolidation in the U. S. wine industry continues at an unabated pace. Most of the mergers and acquisitions are followed weeks later by layoffs and closures of production facilities. Sebastiani, Coppola and Chateau...

<p >A late frost in Europe is wreaking havoc on prized vineyards in France and Italy. Several consecutive nights of frost are causing lots of worry for farmers. In the coming weeks farmers will be accessing the damage...

<p > Imported wine prices could be headed lower? Ursula Von der Leyen President of the European Commission and President Biden have agreed to suspend all tariffs with regard to the Airbus-Boeing dispute for four months...

<p >Constellation Brands executives must be elated to finally complete their sale of over 32 wine brands and five wineries to E. J. Gallo Winery. The $810 million deal was less than half of the $1.7 billion initially...

<p >Delivery startup Go Puff has just announced its acquisition of alcohol beverage retailer BevMo. While Bevmo already has an online presence and delivery service Go Puff’s network, which delivers convenience store...

<p >The year 2020 represents our fifth straight year of devastating wildfires in Northern California Wine Country. Weeks removed from full containment of the LNU Complex Fire which burned 363,220 acres the Glass Fire...

<p >Lately there hasn’t been much to celebrate about and as a result Champagne growers are facing challenges due to the pandemic and collapsing sales. So far the French government has not offered any actionable help...

<p >The latest entrant into the celebrity wine business is Snoop Dogg. Bill has pledged to pick up a bottle and give it a review. Stay tuned.</p><p >Jeff Siegel the Wine Curmudgeon thinks Bordeaux costs too much for the...

<p >We have a new wine bar in Sebastopol. Region wine bar will specialize in pouring small production wines using self-serve wine machines.</p><p >Cameron Diaz and Katherine Power have entered the celebrity wine...

<p >After three plus months of shelter in place mandates with a significant portion of the hospitality and restaurant business in California throttled to an idle, wineries, brew pubs and distillers have been given the...