The Paraduxx Winery hospitality expansion and renovation project encompassed the addition of a VIP tasting room, a full commercial kitchen, guest restroom facilities and office space for winery staff. Renovated spaces within the existing facility include hospitality areas, tasting rooms, a service pantry for food prep and restrooms. The project also included extensive landscaping, a food truck court, trellises, turf, pavers, walkways and an expanded and repaved parking lot. The project was completed on an aggressive schedule to welcome guests by the Summer of 2025. During the project, Wright worked closely with winery staff to ensure that there were no disruptions to operations or the guest experience, by carefully coordinating all construction activities, traffic and guest flow.

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Summer is almost here, and we're gearing up for our 2024 Summer Open House + Marketplace at Grand Cru on Saturday, June 1st, from 11am to 3pm. It's just 5 weeks away! Whether you're a seasoned wine enthusiast or a novice, there's something for everyone to enjoy. Tickets are available now for $35, and they include wine tasting and valet parking. Here's what's in store for you at the event: Wine Wonderland: Discover wines from 14 exceptional wineries, including:Black Kite Bruliam Bucher Cupere Domaine de la Riviere Ernest Innumero Jeff Cohn Moret Brealynn Parea Saxon Brown Stringer Plus, we're excited to welcome some new wineries this year: Copper Six and Fat Dragon! Wineries will be pouring upwards of 4 wines, giving you the perfect opportunity to find your new favorite local wine. Culinary Delights: Treat your taste buds to delicious offerings from our featured vendors:Lunch Box: Indulge in juicy smash burgers, sandwiches, and more. Dino'

This year, more than normal, August and the start of September felt like a holding period while the Northern Hemisphere harvests commenced and their likely respective sizes are assessed. The slowness of the bulk market in many countries – persisting for 2-3 months, brought about by the inflationary picture in key markets, perhaps too a lag in the shipping of already-contracted volumes – suggested only crops significantly down from their averages would stimulate activity. We have seen something of that in California, where an already light crop was hit by a week of extreme temperatures at the start of September.  Europe, however, has remained largely unmoved, as the crops in France, Spain and Italy appear to be coming in below their averages but not significantly so. Red wine carryover is large in Europe and across the world. Whites are in healthier supplydemand balance, and the Languedoc’s bulk campaign for the white varietals kicked off early and quickly as many

Conditions in California’s growing areas were largely normal through June into early July – perhaps slightly on the erratic side, with degree-day accumulation highly variable between areas and some humidity and/or shatter in evidence. It goes without saying that water supplies are a concern across the state.  Phonologically, overall, the timing of vine development appears to be similar to last year, though areas of the Central Coast – namely Monterey – are potentially lagging behind what was already an unusually late year in 2021 (picking in some areas lasted into November). Degree-day accumulation has been variable, with the King City area of Monterey well behind last year while accumulation in Paso Robles has been ahead.  Lodi has largely experienced normal conditions interspersed by the odd bout of humidity or cloudiness. Timing there is similar to last year, though degreeday accumulation is behind in western Lodi. Up in northern Lodi and the North

The wine industry heads to the first ProWein fair in three years experiencing – like every other industry – inflationary costs, a global supply chain crisis, and a shortage of dry goods. It is undoubtedly a difficult environment in which to do business, and fairs like ProWein can provide an important opportunity to gain clearer visibility of market pitfalls and thrash out workarounds in person – even before one takes into account the fact that, for two years, having such meetings has been very difficult due to the pandemic. See our ProWein Preview this month for more details.  The OIV’s latest ‘State of the World Vine & Wine Sector’, published in April, gave a preliminary global wine production figure for 2021 of 260 million hectolitres, in line with 2020 and slightly down from the ten-year average, with good-sized Southern Hemisphere crops offsetting the impact of spring frost in Europe. Global consumption, meanwhile, was estimated at 236 m

As we move into the second quarter of the year, California’s bulk wine and grape markets are proceeding steadily, with some particular areas – namely Napa and Sonoma – commanding high interest while other areas are quieter. Overall, while retail sales from the first quarter of 2022 are assessed, inflationary input costs are adjusted to and spring’s clusters are counted and dissected, some degree of caution pervades buying behavior.  Rabobank’s latest Wine Quarterly report cites a “perfect storm” of five challenges facing the wine industry in the US and globally: Rising shipping/ trucking costs, rising gas prices, rising labor costs, five years of geopolitical uncertainty (tariff wars, COVID-19, the Russia-Ukraine conflict) and “relatively tight” inventories after two-successive short crops in 2020 and 2021. Rabobank references a “regionalization of supply chains” in response to rising trucking and gas prices, with c

As the first quarter of 2022 draws to a close, California’s bulk wine and grape markets are active, in some areas and on some varieties more active at this point than they have been for a few years. Last month’s 2021 grape crush report confirmed, at 3.61 million tons, a second-successive short crop, while the ongoing dry winter in California is raising the prospect of a third. Set against this, wine sales at US retail continue to fall back as pandemic pantrystocking recedes into the past and inflationary pressure is going to be felt by all businesses and individuals this year.  The crush report revealed a state-wide average tonnage price of $884/ton in 2021, well up from 2020’s $680/ton. But from an historical perspective the 2020 price was anomalous, as smoke exposure concerns led to downward adjustments. The 2021 price of $884/ton could be said to mark a return to normal pricing, in line with 2019’s $827/ton and 2018’s $856/ton, and was a product of

“It goes without saying that 2021 is hard to predict” we wrote last January, after a dramatic 2020 that brought with it a global pandemic and, in California, record-breaking wildfires. Thankfully, 2021 proved less momentous, with the rapid vaccination rollout enabling at least some semblance of normal life to return and a wet October helping to contain the wildfire threat.  By April the on-premise – which in the COVID-19 era has become even more the barometer of economic and societal well-being – had reopened in every US state, albeit under varying restrictions. Correspondingly, the upsurge in off-premise wine sales – brought about by consumer pantry stocking in response to COVID-19’s arrival – began to abate, so that by year-end there was a question mark as to whether sales were trending above their 2019 prepandemic level, let alone the 2020 spike.  With COVID-19 still a problem two years on from its first appearance, visibility movi

The 2021 growing season in Europe has been one of the most challenging for many years, with severe frosts occurring post-budbreak followed by a very wet or drought-hit summer, depending on location. France, arguably the most affected, is officially forecast to see a crop down 25% in size on the five-year average, which – because of vine pull-outs over recent decades – would make it the smallest crop on record. However, in southern France, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and other white varietals are coming in below even this estimate, at closer to a 50% shortfall.  Italy’s total crop shortfall is expected to be significantly less dramatic, at 9% down from last year’s 49 million hectolitres, though some areas – such as EmiliaRomagna (-15%) and Abruzzo (-18%) – are expected to fare worse than that. Spain’s crop, too, is now expected to come in shorter than the long-term average, with tonnages in La Mancha on the first grapes to be picked –