How will this affect the California wine industry?

Hope all wineries that had banking relationships with SVB are okay.

I am leading two one-week wine tours in Tuscany this spring. A few spots are still available. It would be great to see you there! drvino.com/2023/01/31/win…

Good Morning Everyone! Is inflation cancelled? Container shipping costs are back to pre-pandemic levels.

Sad news. Here’s our obit on Julie Powell, who changed food writing forever. nytimes.com/2022/11/01/din…

The most expensive 2019 wine I have seen--maybe buy a few others and go for the case discount? nyc.flatiron-wines.com/products/domai…

Just leaving this here…

Unbelievable, the Daily Star have a live feed, seeing whether Truss will outlive a lettuce.

If you were flying JFK - AUK, would you do the new NZ1/2 direct flight? 17+ hrs in the same aluminum tube seems like deep vein thrombosis waiting to happen. But then again, changing planes is a pain...

Guess how many points? 'Crushed blackberries and blueberries with some flowers, such as violets & lavender. Bark, too. Medium-to full-bodied with layers of ripe, refined tannins w/ a cool undertone. Plenty of subtle blackberry & wet-earth undertones. From organically grown grapes

Italians discovering Americans will buy Pinot Grigio

nytimes.com/2022/09/11/hea…

“Drought has ravaged dozens of crops throughout Europe — corn in Romania, rice in Italy, beans in Belgium, and beets and garlic in France. Among the hardest hit is the olive crop of Spain, which produces one half of the world’s olive oil.” nytimes.com/2022/09/10/bus…

RIP SevenFifty 😢 It was a good run

California's 2022 wine grape harvest forecast to be the second smallest of the past ten bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Caller on waitwait says his sister’s name is Crystal Decanter. That is crazy as it is, but what if she married Ira Wineglass?

Much of the Central Coast is in a state of hurry up and harvest, as many areas are two weeks ahead of schedule, and not everyone has the capacity to deal with a tidal wave of grapes.