The 2020 Grape Harvest Got Walloped by Tim Carl· April 16, 2021 6:58 pm·In early February, the California Department of Food and Agriculture Preliminary Grape Crush Report for 2020 highlighted what many local…
Is Wine Healthy? by Tim Carl· March 2, 2021 1:15 am·A month before leaving office, the Trump administration rejected an advisory committee’s recommendation that men should cut their daily alcohol…
Bad news for the Wine Industry: Restaurants are in Trouble by Tim Carl· March 1, 2021 11:58 pm·Food and wine go hand and hand, and so, too, do restaurants and the wine industry. The pandemic has hit…
Remembering There’s a World of Wine Out There by Tim Carl· January 22, 2021 2:45 pm·Given the avalanche of challenges in 2020—pandemic restrictions, numerous fires, multiple power outages, labor shortages and economic uncertainty—it’s often difficult…
Wine in a Box is Now Cool by Tim Carl· December 8, 2020 5:28 pm·When the pandemic hit the United States in March, the sale of wine-in-box containers spiked. Like many other “necessities”—such as…
What Now? by Tim Carl· December 3, 2020 5:16 pm·If you’re in the winemaking or winegrape growing business, you probably feel as if the entire industry is on a…
To Drop or Not to Drop by Tim Carl· November 23, 2020 6:30 pm·For the last decade or more, Northern California grape growers have largely experienced high demand, but this is changing. Falling…
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know by Tim Carl· September 22, 2020 4:42 pm·To say that the wine industry is facing a host of challenges doesn’t seem to quite do the current situation…
Pandemic Impacts the Wine Industry by Tim Carl· September 11, 2020 6:51 pm·The effects from the coronavirus pandemic on the wine industry will be felt for years. Without deep pockets, a robust…
The Opportunity of a Lifetime by Tim Carl· August 20, 2020 10:09 pm·Over the last couple of decades, Wine Country has experienced a gauntlet of challenges—floods, an earthquake, numerous fires, power outages,…