North Bay Business Journal

  • Winery Exchange revamps Echelon with North Coast grapes

    November 14th, 2011

    After acquiring the Echelon Vineyards brand from Diageo Chateau & Estates Wines early this year, Novato-based Winery Exchange has revamped the brand inside the bottle and out. … Boisset Family Estates, whose U.S. portfolio of brands includes DeLoach, Buena Vista and Raymond, formed a “strategic partnership” with 75,000-case-a-year Lockwood Vineyard in Monterey County. … Part of the makeover of the Main Street Exchange building at 1040 Main St. in downtown Napa, are tenant improvements to accommodate 22 employees of Huneeus Vintners. The Huneeus family wine company plans to relocate accounting, sales administration and marketing personnel from the Quintessa winery in St. Helena to 5,800 square feet in Napa around the beginning of next year … What started as a novel packaging idea to distinguish their 400-case-a-year Rua wine brand has turned into a business in its own right for Windsor-based wine sales and marketing veterans Máire Murphy and her husband, Walt Averill. In the past year since launching CapaBunga — a surfer-esque play on “capsule” and wine barrel “bung” — they’ve sold 117,000 of the stretchable food-grade silicone bottleneck capsules. … Tony Linegar, 46, Mendocino County agricultural commissioner and sealer of weights and measures for nearly three years, will move to that role in Sonoma County on Jan. 3. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved his appointment Tuesday. … With harvest mostly over in the North Coast, it’s the start of wine business conference season.

  • Ascentia sells Gary Farrell brand to Vincraft, Buena Vista to Boisset

    April 28th, 2011

    GEYSERVILLE — Ascentia Wine Estates, which formed in June 2008 with the acquisition of eight Sonoma County and Pacific Northwest wine brands, today announced it sold two Sonoma County brands, with Gary Farrell Winery in Russian River Valley going to The Vincraft Group of Sonoma and the recently relocated Buena Vista Carneros brand going to St. Helena-based Boisset Family Estates.

  • Wine: Regulators gear up for third round of European grapevine moth fight

    July 26th, 2010

    Also: Jess Jackson, Kunde and Balletto families receive honors

  • Construction: Whole Foods testing local food concept in Mill Valley

    June 7th, 2010

    The newly completed renovation of the 29,000-square-foot vacant Albertsons store as a second Whole Foods Market grocery store in Mill Valley represents a testing ground for new concepts for the Texas-based chain, according to regional spokesman Danny Olivas. The company now has four Marin County stores and 25 in the Bay Area.

  • Wine conference presenters will focus on building value

    April 19th, 2010

    NORTH BAY — What’s it worth to you? It’s a vital question vintners need to ask themselves, regardless of whether they are looking to sell a luxury-tier wine to consumers more conscious of spending on such luxuries or to court an investor in all or part of the business, according to experts set to speak at a wine business conference this week in Santa Rosa.

  • Wine conference registration closes Friday

    April 12th, 2010

    The NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL’s 2010 Wine Conference the morning of April 22 will focus on how to succeed in today’s market including sales strategies and ownership options. To register, contact Linda Perkins at 707-521-5264 or events@busjrnl.com by April 16, or go to www.NorthBayBusinessJournal.com/19239/2010-wine-industry-conference-registration/.

  • Boisset to keynote April 22 wine conference

    March 19th, 2010

    NORTH BAY — The North Bay Business Journal’s 2010 Wine Conference the morning of April 22 will focus on how to succeed in today’s market including sales strategies and ownership options.

  • Register now for 2010 Wine Industry Conference

    March 12th, 2010

    Is your glass half full? Strategies to succeed in today’s market. Thursday, April 22, 2010, 7:30-11:30 a.m. Hyatt Vineyard Creek, Santa Rosa. Registration deadline April 16.

  • Boisset acquires Raymond in Napa Valley

    August 11th, 2009

    SAUSALITO – Boisset Family Estates, which owns DeLoach Vineyards, purchased Raymond Vineyard & Cellar from Japan-based Kirin Holdings Co. Ltd.

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