The winemaking journey has been off the beaten path for Lorraine and Michael Barber, co-proprietors and winemakers of Barber Cellars in Petaluma. What started on a whim in 2005 has grown into a thriving operation with estate…
In the summer of 2021 two local wine producers—Santa Rosa’s Vintage Wine Estates (VWE) and Napa Valley’s Duckhorn Vineyards (NAPA)—issued stock on Wall Street and went public. Initially these stocks did well. However, that initial enthusiasm faded quickly, with…
Halftime show a half-pay job? While the Super Bowl halftime show can attract over 100 million viewers and cost more than $10 million to put on, the typical performer is paid next to zilch for staging one of the…