2024 may well be one of the most challenging years in recent history for the American wine industry. Let’s change that. Multiple Alarm Bells At the recent Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, several prominent experts in various fields sounded the alarms during the enormously popular “State of the Industry” session attended by several thousand industry members. Wine Economist Mike Veseth compared the present with the distant past when similar clouds were on the horizon. Wine market analyst Danny Brager cited several troubling trends in consumer demographics, beverage preferences, anti-alcohol pressures, and apparent wine industry apathy. Steve Fredricks of Turrentine Brokerage repeatedly urged California wine grape growers to immediately tear out 30,000 acres of vineyards—roughly the total in New York State for grape juice, wine, and table grapes–to alleviate the current and chronic excess supply situation. Let’s Get to Work! We possess

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Napa Valley Robot ‘Sommelier’ Spurs Debate on AI in the Wine Business: “He doesn’t break glasses,” Maria Reznikova said, citing a bonus with hiring her new staffer — a robot “sommelier” that has become quite an attraction for gawkers shopping on Calistoga’s Lincoln Avenue...

From France to the New World, the small, family-run cooperage has pioneered premium barrel making for fine wines. NAPA – April 7th, 2021 — Dargaud and Jaeglé, one of the world’s oldest wine barrel cooperages, celebrates 100 years in 2021. The company not only survived a world war, the devastating phylloxera outbreak, fires, freezes, and economic […] The post World-Renowned Wine Barrel Cooper Dargaud and Jaeglé Turns 100 appeared first on Wine Industry Advisor. Url:https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2021/04/07/wine-barrel-cooper-dargaud-and-jaegle-turns-100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wine-barrel-cooper-dargaud-and-jaegle-turns-100 Published Date:Wed, 07 Apr 2021 17:19:24 +0000