North Bay Business Journal

  • 2011 winegrape harvest starts later, is lighter

    September 5th, 2011

    The 2011 North Coast winegrape harvest began later and lighter than normal and even more than 2010, which suffered from some of the same early-season bad weather and cool summer conditions of this year.

  • Piper Sonoma brand part of $592 million sale

    May 31st, 2011

    HOPLAND — The locally produced Piper Sonoma sparkling wine brand is part of deal Rémy Cointreau Group announced today to sell the Piper-Heidsieck group of Champagne brands to Société Européenne de Participations Industrielles, or EPI, for an enterprise value of €412.2 million, or nearly $593 million.

  • Wine: As consumers seek value, wineries adjust

    September 21st, 2009

    Also: Inman wines hires hospitality chief; trial in Mare Island fire Nov. 17 Most wine industry executives surveyed for a major industry conference last week are expecting sales of California wine to start growing in 2011, with prices rebounding for high-end wines in three to five years. Yet experts at the event said there are [...]

  • Custom winemakers expanding in Hopland

    December 15th, 2008

    HOPLAND – Custom vintner RB Wine Associates is coming off a $7 million expansion and upgrade that allowed a major sparkling-wine label to move in for harvest this year, one of a handful of sizable contract winemaking facility projects in progress around the North Coast.

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