First update of the Grape Data Tool
The nice folks at USDA-NASS took a bit longer than usual, but they finally got the Acreage Report up on Friday. For me, that heralds a...
Countdowns Added to Grape Data Tool
I have added a new feature to the Grape Data Tool. Now it shows today's date, along with the dates for the Turrentine Crop Contest...
Crush and Acreage Reports Behind the Scenes: How to Make this Great Data Even Better
Last week I drove to Sacramento to speak with the folks who put together the Crush Report and the Acreage Report. It’s so essential to...
Will the Crush and Acreage Reports be Cut from the USDA Budget?
So, Lew Perdue reported on something that's been keeping me up at night - the fact that possibility that the federal government may...
Crush Report Is Out - Here's My Schedule
So, the Crush Report is out now: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/Grape_Crush/Final/index.php. For...
Hungarian Millennium
Do the words Hungarian Millennium mean anything to you? They mean nothing to me. Or at least they meant nothing to me yesterday. I was...
The 2014 California Winegrape Variety Awards and Useless Winegrape Market Trivia
So, I haven’t been posting a lot lately because I have a (digital) stack of client projects to get through. But I needed a bit of a...
District-by-District Review of the Crush Report, Part 2: Central Coast and Southern California
Second part of this series, over at Wine Industry Advisor: http://www.wineindustryadvisor.com/2015/03/18/crush-report-central-coast-south...
District-by-District Review of the Crush Report
This was posted recently in the Wine Industry Advisor. It is the first part of a three-part review of the crush report by district....
Crush Report Review
As previously seen on Wine Industry Advisor, my review of the Crush Report: For some of us in the wine business, the release of the Crush...
