Sonoma County Chardonnay Update
District 3 Chardonnay Update For someone in Sonoma County and/or the wine industry, Sonoma County means Dry Creek Zinfandel, Alexander...
Sonoma County Zinfandel Update - VFA Gets It Right Again
Sonoma County Zinfandel Update In 2013, District 3 Zinfandel sold for an average of $2498.88 per ton. In case you’re not familiar with...
Final Crush Numbers In: VFA Got California Winegrape Prices Right for 2014
Final Numbers In – Updates on California Grape Prices To start this blog post off, I want to rewind to the very first post I put up here....
Sonoma Chardonnay Update: Price Recovery Accelerates - Still Looks Cyclical
Though I’m waiting for the final crush report numbers to assess my projections’ accuracy, I wanted to go back to one projection, in...
The Preliminary Crush Report is Here!
So, the Preliminary Crush Report came out today and I’ve been comparing it to my predictions. Overall, I’ve been really on point for...
Sideways 10 Years On: The Cost to Merlot Farmers Has Been More than $400M
In the last post, I shared a one-year projection for Napa Merlot prices. The model only worked when a variable was created to measure...
Napa Merlot Prices for 2014
Today’s grape price projection is Napa Merlot. To me, it’s a grape that is playing tug-of-war with itself, in a statistical sense. On...
Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon Prices for 2014
The last post was wholly dedicated to Napa Cabernet Sauvignon and was quite bullish for the future. I do want to reiterate that those...
The Verdict is In: Napa Cab Prices Are No Longer Cyclical, So What Now?
In the last post, we looked at the changing dynamics of modelling county-wide averages for Napa cab prices by year. My suggested method...
Breaking the Cycle: Projecting Grape Price into a Saturated and Ambiguous Future
Here is the previous post in a normal in-blog setting (some issues with graphics due to my host having some troubles with multimedia...
