North Bay Business Journal

  • U.S. thirst for wine passes that of France for first time

    March 15th, 2011

    The long-held place of France as the top market for wine in the world fell to the U.S. last year, according to data released today by wine industry consultants Gomberg, Fredrikson & Associates.

  • Expert: Restaurant wine sales recover, but slowly

    January 26th, 2011

    SACRAMENTO — Sales of wine in restaurants are improving but will be challenging for the next five years amid a lasting consumer shift to “value,” but growers of grapes for ultrapremium-priced wines are facing higher costs than are covered by the increasing number of grape buyers, according to experts at a major wine industry conference in Sacramento today.

  • Alexander Valley Cellars centralizes

    December 13th, 2010

    WINDSOR — Alexander Valley Cellars is centralizing its wine warehousing while tripling the size of its direct-to-consumer business in an expansion move to one of Sonoma County’s largest distribution warehouses.

  • Late ’10 restaurant, tasting room revival good omens for 2011

    December 13th, 2010

    NORTH COAST – Barring a worsened U.S. economy, the sales environment for North Coast fine wines could brighten further in 2011 after showings early signs of improvement this year.

  • Alexander Valley Cellars leases more space

    May 24th, 2010

    WINDSOR – Alexander Valley Cellars is racking up more capacity to store, transport and ship wine as it has picked up a number of customers in the past year and is moving more wine out to the trade and consumers.

  • Report says ‘flight to value’ to continue for wine consumers

    April 19th, 2010

    NORTH COAST — This year is shaping up to be another challenging one for the wine industry on the North Coast as signs of recovery in the U.S. economy and consumer spending slowly take hold, according to an economic report released today.

  • California wine sales flat, revenues off 3.2%

    April 8th, 2010

    CALIFORNIA — Despite an economy in which some wineries’ revenues were off by double-digits last year, California winery shipments to U.S. markets were nearly unchanged in volume, according to industry analyst figures released today. Yet aggressive discounting of wines to maintain that volume resulted in revenue from those shipments dipping 3.2 percent to $17.9 billion.

  • Imports help overall wine sales; end of ’09 better; slow recovery seen

    January 27th, 2010

    SACRAMENTO — Large scale importation of bulk and bottled wine helped boost total U.S. shipments by an estimated 2.1 percent last year, but wineries heavily impacted by shifting consumer demand may have to wait until 2011 for significant market improvement, an expert said at a major industry symposium here this morning.

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