North Bay Business Journal

  • Wineries pursue pouches for premium brands

    September 19th, 2011

    As Patrick Krutz, maker of a Sonoma County-based luxury-tier small-scale brand, looks for the best vessel to carry his new music industry-oriented second label into venues where such bands play, he’s considering a single-serving plastic pouch. Meanwhile in Napa Valley, people behind the edgy X Winery, Miracle One Wines and Clif Bar energy snacks have opted for a 1.5-liter spout-equipped bag without the box for new wine ventures.

  • Privately held wine companies snap up properties

    September 5th, 2011

    Even as the global economy has faltered inn the past four years, a handful of privately owned wine companies have become active in acquiring wine operations, brands and vineyards.

  • Spotlight on Leaders at Independent Wine Companies

    June 27th, 2011

    Following are profiles of the top day-to-day leaders from the Business Journal’s lists of the largest independently owned wineries under 100,000 cases, published in March, and the largest wine companies, published in May.

  • Sonoma Wine Co. expands in American Canyon

    May 23rd, 2011

    AMERICAN CANYON — Custom vintner Sonoma Wine Co. is undertaking major upgrades of its south Napa Valley winemaking facility to accommodate more larger-scale clients.

  • 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 Industry Business Journal: Spotlight: Leaders of the North Coast’s Independent wine companies

    June 28th, 2010

    Following are profiles of the top day-to-day leaders from the Business Journal’s lists of the largest independently owned wineries under 100,000 cases, published in March, and the largest wine companies, published in May.

  • 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.

  • Wineries employ water-saving systems; new look at ‘greywater’

    June 22nd, 2009

    GRATON – The wine and construction industries are finding new ways to reuse and conserve water as constraints are put on the supply of water.

  • Bin to Bottle, Crushpad join forces

    February 23rd, 2009

    NAPA – Custom winery Bin to Bottle has formalized an arrangement with Crushpad of San Francisco to provide crush-to-consumer services to small-production vintners.

  • 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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