North Bay Business Journal

  • Suitor woos Michel-Schlumberger

    November 10th, 2011

    HEALDSBURG — After previous attempts to purchase Michel-Schlumberger, a Southern California-based investor who owns Alder Fels and other California and French wineries has acquired the Dry Creek Valley boutique vintner.

  • Sbragia gets ‘significant’ infusion from S.F. private-equity fund

    October 25th, 2011

    Sbragia Family Vineyards, a Dry Creek Valley-based maker of higher-end wines, received a “significant equity investment” from a wine-focused fund in San Francisco.

  • Grape Market Insights: Will rain spoil merlot’s parade?

    July 4th, 2011

    I stood in the rain and checked the calendar on my watch. It said June but it sure looked like January. I was standing in a merlot vineyard with the self-proclaimed “Best Damn Grower in Dry Creek.” (I probably should not mention that his name is Jim Ricci, so keep that to yourself.) This grower was convinced, as growers often are, that the merlot crop will be light this year. I tried to disagree, but it was hard to argue with him in the pouring rain.

  • Wine: Cecchetti wine sales rise 39%; top North Coast pruners; what is an intern?

    March 14th, 2011

    Sonoma-based Cecchetti Wine Co. reported that it had its third year of volume sales growth. Roy Cecchetti’s goal of making lower-priced wines has resulted in 200,000 cases sold in 2010, a 39 percent increase from 2009. The winery is projecting sales of 250,000 cases total this year. … Winners from vineyard pruning contests in Mendocino, Sonoma and Napa counties. … A California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Labor Standards Enforcement opinion letter has added new wrinkles to the quandary over whether student interns have to be paid at least minimum wage as employees, according to Jennifer Phillips, an employment and real estate attorney with Dickenson Peatman & Fogarty in Santa Rosa. … Graton-based custom winemaker Sonoma Wine Co., which now produces more than 5 million cases of wine from six facilities in Sonoma and Napa counties, inked a deal with Sebastopol-based Winesecrets to provide services to Sonoma Wine’s 30 clients. … Golden State Overnight and FedEx expand direct-shipping services. … Bill Hambrecht teams with Paul and Heath Dolan and Phil Hurst in the H.D.D. wine group venture. … Dry Creek Vineyard entered a sales and marketing agreement with Sonoma-based V2 Wine Group, which will manage Dry Creek’s distribution nationwide.

  • Wine: Supervisors deny Dry Creek Valley Association appeal

    December 13th, 2010

    Seaton Vineyards to build winery; traffic study in contention

  • Who’s Who in Independent Wine Companies

    June 29th, 2009

    What follows are brief introductions to the top leaders of independently owned wine companies from the Business Journal’s Independently Owned Wineries list, published in March, and the Wine Companies list, published in this issue.

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