Afternoon Brief, March 18th

Founding Winemaker James Hall Buys Back Patz & Hall from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates: James Hall, the founding partner and winemaker, has repurchased Patz & Hall winery from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, which has owned the winery since 2016...

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA (August 2, 2021) – Sunridge Nurseries Inc. is proud to announce and welcome Nicholas (Nic) Podsakoff, as the new Northern Interior & US Southwest  Regional Sales Manager for the company. Nicholas will service clients in California’s northern and central interior regions as well as southwestern states including Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. “It is evident that Sunridge’s commitment to the grapevine industry is strong.  They are comprised of the most experienced administration, production and sales team along with three generations of family involvement.  This is in addition to over 40 years of being leaders in the business.” says Nicholas. “I’m excited for the opportunity to work with the Sunridge Nurseries team to meet the grapevine industry’s plant material needs.” Nicholas brings over 18 years of grapevine sales experience to the team. His experience in the agricultural business

What it means to winegrapes and what we can do about it I'm not an expert in climatology, and I’ll bet most of you are not either. That is why I listen to experts on the subject of climate change. I concluded, long ago, that not only is it real, but humankind has played a large part in the most recent and dramatic changes in weather patterns and weather-related events. I’d like to avoid politics in this viticulture column, but I find it painful to hear that deniers are still out there. Sure, there are some scientists that deny anthropogenic causes for climate change, but they represent only a tiny minority of scientists who have seen enough evidence supporting man-made climate change. In fact, many of the scientists being touted by climate change deniers are not climate scientists at all—some are not true scientists at all. What struck me and made me a believer many years ago, was the dramatic spike in atmospheric CO2 concentration over the last several decades