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 …
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 …
The Nashville Wine Auction raised more than $2.4 million at the 44th Annual l’Eté du Vin, which was held July 29 at the JW Marriott. This year’s event featured Château Léoville Barton and Barton Family Wines with honored guest Damien Barton Sartorius. Along with Mouton-Rothschild, the Barton family is proud to be the longest-standing family of winemakers in Bordeaux. The …
Zinfandel Advocates & Producers (ZAP) has launched Zinfandel Live to tell the Zinfandel story in six, short entertaining episodes beginning July 27 on the ZAP YouTube channel. Each bi-monthly episode will feature world-class wines and their winemakers who will lead the viewer to discover the joys of America’s Heritage wine—Zinfandel. Hosted by award-winning author, speaker and television personality Leslie Sbrocco, …
In recognition that climate impacts and marketplace dynamics are becoming more frequent and extreme for farmers, the Sonoma County Winegrowers invited experts from some of the country’s most iconic and innovative companies to gather in Sonoma County last week for its inaugural Farm of the Future Summit. These leaders answered a call to action to collaborate with farmers in Sonoma …
A recent main focus of my research program is to identify grape cultivars that may have potential success for the Missouri grape and wine industry. Besides evaluating readily available named cultivars and advanced grape breeder selections, I search out for named cultivars that were lost during prohibition. These cultivars were sent across the Atlantic ocean to serve as rootstocks for …
Wine grapes are produced on 1-year old wood. The 2023 Missouri wine grape crop started off as fruit buds in early June 2022. The fruit buds matured as the 2022 grape crop was nearing harvest. In Missouri, grape harvest begins around mid-August and finishes around November 1. Late maturing cultivars such as Norton and Chambourcin experienced an early killing frost …
Recent statistics for U.S. origin wine imported into Japan and consumption trends are on the rise, according to USDA Foreign Agricultural Service representatives, presenting new opportunities for U.S. exporters. Now, in year five of the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement (USJTA), tariffs are on the path to significant reductions for bottled wine, semi-bulk wine, and sparkling wine. Tariffs were eliminated altogether on …
