Contents of the August Issue: The Best Place to Grow Pinot Noir Bill & Lauren Hipp Retire After a Joyous Experience Sustainable Vineyard Pest Management Experts Tell of Tech Innovations Coastal Wine Industry Struggles COVID-19 Market Favors Value-Priced Wines Heroine of the Vineyards Rhonda Smith Wraps up Career

“Wines Judged By and For Sommeliers” With an aim to provide on-premise buyers and sommeliers a valuable benchmark for understanding which wines would make a compelling addition to a wine list, Sommeliers Choice Awards is back with its second edition which is going to take place in San Francisco on 18 May 2020. A judging panel of top level sommeliers, …

A two-day experience for wineries, service providers, importers, and distributors – where knowledge and vision will frame a platform upon which you will be able to profoundly impact your business. As the buzz around Artificial Intelligence, Voice, Consumer Behaviour, 3-Tier System, Blockchain continues to grow, the opportunity has arisen for organisations to get ahead of the game and start understanding …

Jim Agger is the Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at WineDirect.  He has 15 years business-to-business sales and sales management experience in software-as-a-service and logistics.  Before joining WineDirect, Jim held positions with WineAccess, ShipCompliant and FedEx Services.  He has also created the landmark affinity relationship between the Wine Institute and FedEx.   When Jim was responsible for sales at …

Robert Tracy is the owner and co-founder of BevTrac Mobile Quality System, LLC which serves the wine industry by providing specialized technical expertise in the fields of winery sanitation and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) while providing the added value of analytical and microbiological laboratory testing services. For the past 12 years, Robert has consulted at over 100 wineries in the …

Join us for the 2018 Sonoma Vintage Report as we review the growing year from a data-driven perspective!  Considering the moderate weather patterns of 2018, we will look at how a long season impacted vine physiology and grape maturity profiles.  With impressive yields, 2018 turned out to be a great growing year. Connect with the brightest minds in viticulture and …

The Napa Vintage Report is a seminar for winegrowers to dive into the previous year’s growing season and explore innovative technologies that can impact quality and yield.  Considering the moderate weather patterns of 2018, we will look at how a long season impacted vine physiology and grape maturity profiles. With impressive yields, 2018 turned out to be a great growing …

The Napa Vintage Report is a seminar for winegrowers to dive into the previous year’s growing season and explore innovative technologies that can impact quality and yield.  Considering the moderate weather patterns of 2018, we will look at how a long season impacted vine physiology and grape maturity profiles. With impressive yields, 2018 turned out to be a great growing …

Join us for the 2018 Paso Robles Vintage Report! Through analysis from the industry’s leading researchers and wine industry practitioners, we will review the 2018 growing year in terms of fruit quality and wine chemistry. We will look into how the moderate weather patterns of 2018 impacted berry maturity and vine physiology.  The Paso Robles Vintage Report is an excellent …

California wine shipments in the U.S. reached an estimated retail value of $35.2 billion in 2017, up 3% from the previous year. The state shipped 241 million nine-liter cases in the U.S. in 2017, up 1%. California wine sales to all markets, including shipments to the U.S. and exports worldwide, were 278 million cases in 2017. “Consumers in the U.S. …