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2007 Grape Prices. Go Pinot Go!

Preliminary crush data for 2007 were released on Feb 10th. And there was much rejoicing. Some of the data are pretty interesting. I’ve highlighted a couple bits below.
This first graph (created in the wonderful Apple spreadsheet app, Numbers) shows the highest price per ton paid for each grape variety in California Sonoma County. Considering the [...]

The Grapes of Math

I’ve written about Enologix here before. Their service purports to help you make wine that will score better with influential gatekeepers like Parker and the Wine Spectator. It is veiled in secrecy (very few producers own up to using it, though reports indicate that Enologix has approx. 50-60 clients) and it costs around 20K a [...]

Quick Hit Wine Link

I mentioned a Cornell study that showed that when people thought a wine was from California they ate 12% 11% more than when they thought it was from North Dakota in a recent post, but failed to provide a link. Well, here it is.
Pretty interesting stuff.

Hats Off to Inertia - Free Compliance Tool Coming

Today’s announcement that Inertia has been developing a comprehensive free compliance tool for wineries is really fantastic news for the industry - and especially so for small producers. That Inertia is also opening the system up so that fulfillment houses (and even point of sales systems located in tasting rooms) can access and use the [...]

Super-Secret Winery Financial Data

In a closed and largely privately held industry like Wine it can be hard to find solid financial numbers to judge your performance against. One of the very best sources of information on the profit picture for northern CA wineries comes from Silicon Valley Bank’s Wine Division. SVB has been lending to Sonoma and Napa [...]