With the U.S. wine industry under pressure from declining sales, shifting consumer trends, and economic headwinds, Sonoma County’s vintners and grape growers are coming together in an unprecedented way to confront these challenges – and chart a positive path forward for the local industry. A steering committee of regional leaders has been formed to explore establishing the Sonoma County Wine Improvement District (WID) to provide stable, strategic funding for the long-term strength and sustainability of Sonoma County’s wine and agricultural economy.  The stakes are high. The marketplace is changing rapidly and maintaining the status quo is not an option. The wine industry is facing challenges like never before which must be addressed to reverse the decline and grow the overall wine category.  This effort is significant and grounded in a fundamental truth: grape growers and vintners are inextricably connected, and the success of one depends on the strength o

Flextank Helps La Mesa Vineyards Deliver Award-Winning Wines Sweep Gold Medals At Three Prestigious California Wine Competitions  La Mesa Vineyards uses Flextank vessels to capture gold medals  and create top small-batch artisan-style wines of exceptional quality. Vancouver, Wash. – August 06, 2024 – Flextank, the leader in advanced oxygen-permeable polyethylene tanks for wine, cider, spirits and craft beverage fermentation and storage, today announced one of the company’s premier Flextank customers, La Mesa Vineyards, recently swept prestigious industry wine awards in three separate competitions. The Amador County, Calif.-based La Mesa Vineyards received several Gold, Double Gold and Best-in-Class awards at the respected 2024 Peninsula Underground "Under the Radar" California wine competition, 2024 Orange County Fair Commercial Wine competition, and at the 2024 California State Fair competition. Competition is Fierce. Flextank Helps Deliver Awar

Each season brings new and exciting happenings for our World Cooperage Account Managers around the globe as they work with our partner winemakers. We checked in on a few of them recently to see what was shaking in their part of the world. Come take a peek with us! Today we bring you updates from Paso Robles, the Sierra Foothills, Canada, France, and Chile. Stay tuned for our next update where we will hear from Account Managers in different parts of the world. FRANCE Emmanuel Boudaric, Account Manager Bonjour from sunny Bordeaux where the fruit set is in full swing in the Medoc region! The sales campaigns of the Classified Grands Crus for the 2020 vintage en Primeur are showing good momentum on the recovery of the wine trade. The end-of-aging tastings for the 2019 vintage and the first tastings of 2020 are led by exceptional quality. It is also the time of the year when we start to look into the upcoming 2021 vintage and discuss technically with our customers on adapting the best toast

Foothills wine region gives guests a peek “behind the cellar door” in a reimagined structure. Plymouth, California, 6 April, 2021 – The Amador Vintners Association (AVA) welcomed more than 1200 people to the annual Behind the Cellar Door regional wine event over the weekend of March 26-28, 2021.  Visitors from California and Nevada to Amador Wine […] The post Amador Vintners Host California’s First COVID-Safe Regional Wine Event appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2021/04/07/amador-vintners-host-californias-first-covid-safe-regional-wine-event?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amador-vintners-host-californias-first-covid-safe-regional-wine-event Published Date:Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:02:14 +0000