Sonoma County Vintners Foundation (SCVF) is excited to share the fabulous live auction lots for the upcoming Sonoma County Wine Auction (SCWA) to be held on September 16, 2023 at the beautiful La Crema Estate at Saralee’s Vineyard. Collectors and wine enthusiasts from around the country will travel to Sonoma County to bid on rare, sought-after wine collections and exceptional private experiences …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Risk Management Agency (RMA) have authorized policy flexibilities for key disaster assistance programs and crop insurance to aid Northeast agricultural operations that have been significantly impacted by recent flooding in 2023. “The production and physical losses to flooding have devastated farmers and ranchers in the Northeast,” said Robert Bonnie, …
Sun World International, LLC today announces the launch of a first-of-its-kind global marketing campaign for AUTUMNCRISP® brand green seedless grapes. The fully integrated campaign – expected to be the largest-ever for a branded grape – aims to raise retail and consumer awareness and stimulate demand for these unique branded grapes. “Over the past 20 years, the produce industry had made …
“The Secret Life of Vineyards,” an insect-themed ceramic-mosaic mural created by a UC Davis team and was recently installed at the Matthiasson Winery on Dry Creek Road, Napa. The large-scale mural, spearheaded by two faculty members/artists in the Department of Entomology and Nematology, and an artist/retired lecturer in the Department of Design, was unveiled at on Wednesday, Aug. 16 at …
Sonoma County Vintners Foundation (SCVF) is pleased to announce a distribution of $550,000 for 55 Community Grants to Sonoma County nonprofits that work across the areas of education & literacy, health & human services, the environment and arts & culture. See the full list of grant recipients at sonomawine.com/impact. Through the tremendous support and generosity of the Sonoma County wine community, …
Tickets for Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley, the four-day, six-town celebration of the region’s bounty held each fall, are on sale now, Visit the Santa Ynez Valley announced. Held from Sept. 28-Oct. 1, the four-day, six-town celebration offers an experiential culinary exploration of the region’s food, wine, and more — and the people behind it all. Brought together by …
In MY 2022/23, the USDA Foreign Ag Service Santiago, Chile (Post) estimates an 8.6 percent decrease in table grape production, totaling 720,000 metric tons. The decrease in production is caused by a decrease in table grape area planted and by adverse climatic conditions in the central part of the country which lowered yields (Figure 1). Table grape area planted is on a decreasing …
With the increase in sugars, veraison kicks off the period to start managing drosophilid flies (e.g. spotted wing drosophila (SWD)), which can considerably help suppress sour rot in your vulnerable grapes. The drosophilid flies are active nearly year round in these parts, but near veraison, as the brix levels in wine grapes reach approximately 15 degrees Brix, the grapes become attractive (and thus susceptible) to SWD. …
Edward “Ned” Spang has been named director of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, or RMI, at the University of California, Davis. Spang, an associate professor with the Department of Food Science and Technology, began his new position on Aug. 1. He succeeds wine chemist Andrew Waterhouse, professor emeritus with the Department of Viticulture and Enology, who …
Following a recent expansion adding a state-of-the-art sparkling production site in Geyserville, Rack & Riddle has now acquired the Weibel Family Winery in Lodi, making the company the largest premium, custom sparkling wine producer in America. Founded in 2007, Rack & Riddle began as a small company focused on producing superior sparkling wine in the traditional French Méthode Champenoise. Over …
