The Relative Importance of Each Winegrape District
I am releasing another chart for public use. Just please keep the attribution in. The bars show the percentage of statewide, total...
Inflation-Adjusted Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Prices
As part of my continuing project to make available to the industry charts from different projects I've worked on, here is a chart of Napa...
Response to Ernie Carpenter
Today, at the Sonoma County Viticultural Technical Group meeting we spoke a bit about the importance of not killing off microbial...
Price per Ton vs. Tons per Acre in Sonoma County
As part of my push to release graphs I have made to the industry for their use, I am posting this graph that shows for five top...
The Napa Paradox - Cabernet vs. Diversification by the Numbers
In May I presented at the Vineyard Economics Seminar. One topic I focused on was the paradox of the continuing concentration on Cabernet...
Per Capita Wine Consumption in the US by Decade
There are three things that I think hold this industry back: 1) Under-utilization of data and objective facts. 2) Duplication of...
Have California Winegrape Prices Been Increasing in Price in Real Terms?
Anyone can take a look at the crush report - you can do so really easily using one of my Excel-based tools - and see that grape prices...