

Event Type: Tasting
Location: Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate & Gardens
Date: 6/21/2025



Afternoon Brief: Sugarloaf Custom Winery Seeks Bankruptcy Protection as $13 Million Loan in Default
Sugarloaf Wine Co. southeast of Santa Rosa filed for Chapter 11 reorganization as loan on winery goes into foreclosure. Founder says hundreds of thousands of dollars from the winery and a separate vineyard operation went to fund a fintech startup...

Afternoon Brief, March 6th
First-of-Its-Kind Industry-Wide Initiative Launches to Address Sexual Harassment in Beverage Alcohol and Hospitality: 86 Harassment is a free industry resource providing employers and employees with access to training, education, a confidential hotline, and prevention tools from industry experts...

Afternoon Brief, April 14th
California Vintners Welcome Higher Last-Resort Fire Insurance Limits but Await Return of Private Market: The Golden State raises coverage limits on its last-resort policies after billion-dollar wildfire losses at wineries, vineyards and other ag properties. Here’s how North Coast wineries are coping...

Afternoon Brief, March 1st
Registration Is Open for the Wine Industry Sales Symposium In-Person Event: Wine Industry Network (WIN) has opened registration for the Wine Industry Sales Symposium, a one-day educational conference that will be held on Thursday, May 11, 2023, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country, in Santa Rosa, Ca...

Afternoon Brief, June 16th
How Russia’s War on Ukraine Threatens Decades of Winemaking Progress: Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the war has caused incomprehensible losses: millions of displaced citizens, thousands of dead and wounded, as well as the destruction of untold buildings and houses, to say nothing of entire cities and towns...


