It’s Not Just The Weather The 2010 growing season is now being called the worst-ever harvest. Sonoma seems to have gotten the worst of it. Because the fruit was on the vine longer than normal, and the rainy season has begun, a lot of the fruit has suffered from mold. Some vineyards have suffered 100 [...]
Crème de La Crema By Virginia Boone – Press Democrat Back when Melissa Stackhouse was studying winemaking at UC Davis in the 1990s, she figured any serious California winemaker would go to the Napa Valley and make cabernet sauvignon. Making high-minded hearty reds, she thought, would be the path to glory. And for a time, [...]
Napa Valley Wine Calendar Winemakers in Napa Valley brave all for their new calendar. Ever since those cheeky, middle-aged British women posed in the buff in 1999, nude calendars have become a popular source of fundraising. French winemakers released a nude calendar in 2004 to promote the wines of Bordeaux. Now, for the third year, [...]
Victoria’s Premium Wine Region Still Assessing Damage Bushfires in Victoria’s Yarra Valley premium wine region are estimated to have damaged more than 150ha of grapes. This is just weeks before they were due to be harvested. At least 29 vineyards in the area have been damaged or destroyed by fire, while the boutique Roundstone, Yarra [...]
Solar Powered Wine Beringer Vineyards Touts Solar Installation As ‘Largest’ at U.S. Winery Foster’s Wine Estates Americas – a subsidiary of Foster’s Group in Australia – and Perpetual Energy Systems (PES) announced the activation of four solar installations in California. Beringer Vineyards hosts a 1.3 million-watt DC solar energy system, which is being touted as [...]
New wine tax would put the pinch on Two Buck Chuck By Jerry Hirsch – Los Angeles Times Is this the end of Two Buck Chuck? A proposal to raise the state tax on wine to a level more than six times as high to help close California’s budget deficit would kill the $1.99 price [...]
