North Bay Business Journal

  • Hospitality: Sonoma County bureau sees jump in leads

    July 4th, 2011

    The Sonoma County Tourism Bureau is increasingly benefitting from two sources — trade shows and weddings. … Several winery tasting rooms are opening in Sonoma and Napa counties in coming months. … The Napa Tourism Improvement District and the Napa Downtown Association have launched a new website as part of an effort to promote the downtown region.

  • Italian wine equipment maker plans Windsor facility

    May 23rd, 2011

    WINDSOR — A major Italian manufacturer of winemaking equipment plans to build a North American distribution and light production facility in this Sonoma County town.

  • 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: Lede acquires Anderson Valley vineyard; Q&A with Bill Foley

    April 25th, 2011

    Cliff Lede’s Breggo Cellars purchased Savoy Vineyard, a 52-acre pinot noir and chardonnay property in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley. Fruit for the single-vineyard Breggo brand comes from the property. … Pinot noir producer Kosta Browne is expanding in Sebastopol, moving from one former apple processing plant to another. … In the April 11 issue, the Business Journal asked panelists of the April 28 Wine Industry Conference about trends in mergers and acquisitions and in direct sales and social media. Panelist Bill Foley, founder of Foley Family Wines, now provides his insights. … The Hess Collection in Napa gave a $10,000 grant each to The Land Trust of Napa County and the Napa County Student & Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship program (SLEWS). … The Napa Valley Vintners trade group is set to arrive in mainland China with 40 vintners from the county on a weeklong trade mission, including stops in Shanghai and Beijing to meet wine trade representatives, media, targeted consumers and political leaders. … Wine People notes

  • Wine: Supervisors deny Dry Creek Valley Association appeal

    December 13th, 2010

    Seaton Vineyards to build winery; traffic study in contention

  • Top Projects: Solar: Constellation Wines U.S. solar project

    December 6th, 2010

    CALIFORNIA — Constellation Wines U.S., one of the world’s largest wine companies and operator of several North Coast wineries, undertook one of the largest such projects for the wine industry this year.

  • Top Projects: Warehouse: Biagi Bros. and Jackson Family Wines distribution center

    December 6th, 2010

    AMERICAN CANYON — Eleven football fields or 10 Boeing 747 jetliners parked wingtip to wingtip could fit under the massive 15-acre roof of the new distribution center for Santa Rosa-based vintner Jackson Family Wines and Napa-based trucker and warehouser Biagi Bros.

  • Top Projects: Wine: Williams Selyem Estate Winery

    December 6th, 2010

    RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY — John and Kathe Dyson acquired Williams Selyem in 1998 and nearly a decade later embarked upon construction of a facility befitting one of Sonoma County’s most exclusive wine brands.

  • Coppola unveils ‘wine wonderland’

    November 15th, 2010

    GEYSERVILLE – Work crews last week were putting the finishing touches on Francis Ford Coppola’s “wine wonderland” makeover of the former Chateau Souverain winery in Sonoma County’s Alexander Valley.

  • New project profile: Somerston winery, east Napa Valley

    October 18th, 2010

    Editor’s note: The Business Journal features profiles of North Bay construction projects that are complete or nearly so. Send details to jquackenbush@busjrnl.com or fax to 707-521-5292.

  • New project profile: Williams Selyem Estate Winery, Russian River Valley

    August 23rd, 2010

    Construction on one of Sonoma County’s most exclusive wineries started in September 2007 and was completed in phases over the past three years. The new winery provides more-efficient space for aging the wine and more scenic venues for hosting visits or events for mailing-list members, but some functions will continue to be handled off site.

  • New project profile: Ganau America cork facility, Sonoma

    August 2nd, 2010

    Ganau America is a subsidiary of family-owned Sugherificio Ganau S.p.A., Italy’s largest producer of cork wine bottle stoppers. In May 2008, Ganau America purchased 2.8 acres in Carneros Business Park in the Eighth Street East wine-related industrial cluster on the southern outskirts of Sonoma. At 40,000 square feet, the new facility is nearly double the size of Ganau America’s current location about a half-mile away and has four times the amount of laboratory space, according to Mariella Ganau, chief executive officer.

  • Windsor site of new Marcassin winery

    July 26th, 2010

    WINDSOR — Well-known consulting vintner Helen Turley plans to have a home built in Windsor for her own luxury-tier brand Marcassin Vineyard starting this summer.

  • Ceja pushes for fall winery construction

    July 26th, 2010

    CARNEROS — The Ceja family of winegrape growers, vintners and restaurateurs is pushing to start construction this fall on the first phase of a multimillion-dollar winery project among its vines on the Napa County side of Los Carneros winegrowing region.

  • GUEST CONTRIBUTORS: New urban winery set to come of age in Wine Country towns

    March 22nd, 2010

    Instead of the urban winery going rural, we see the economic development opportunity of the existing downtown vacant spaces supporting new urban wineries.

  • Wine: Offices proposed for old Healdsburg winery

    March 5th, 2010

    Also: Auction set for Manchester Ridge vineyards

  • Teams increase design firm value

    February 15th, 2010

    NORTH BAY — Three Santa Rosa and Napa firms have formed an architectural, environmental and engineering design team for winery and related hospitality projects.

  • Goldeneye winery

    December 14th, 2009

    PHILO – In a county that markets itself as “America’s greenest wine region” for its long history of natural-minded methods, Duckhorn Wine Co. aims to raise a new symbol of environmentalism with its winery for the Goldeneye brand from Mendocino County. The winery, completed this summer in the Anderson Valley winegrowing region, has been registered [...]

  • New project profiles: Biagi/Jackson distribution center, Carneros Vintners

    November 9th, 2009

    Editor’s note: The Business Journal features profiles of North Bay construction projects that are complete or nearly so. Send details to jquackenbush@busjrnl.com or fax to 707-521-5292.

  • Seghesio, B.R. Cohn move forward with parts of expansions

    August 24th, 2009

    HEALDSBURG – The Seghesio winemaking family has found that an economic recession can be a good time to save money by spending money on construction that will make more money in wine sales.

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