Predicting Washington Wine Grape Prices
I've been looking for new regions to sell my services in. I love Sonoma and Napa, but I enjoy getting clients from other regions. Last...
The Crush Report is Here! Acreage Report Due Friday
So, the Crush Report dropped on April 10th, as expected in my last update on the matter. Usually I'm on top of that, as soon as it...
Recession Update
In my blog post The Three Horsemen of the Grapepocalypse, Part 2: The Coming Recession, I included a probability distribution of when I...
El Dorado Probably has Labor Issues, Too
Well, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is at least a little bit less true than you originally thought. After asking for...
Is El Dorado the Secret Land of Non-Existent Vineyard Labor Issues?
On March 20th, I’ll be speaking to the El Dorado Wine Grape Growers’ Association. They’re a great group – they always have a lot of...
Are We Hiring into a Industry-Wide Downturn?
This month’s issue of Wine Business Monthly has a lot of useful information in it. A lot of talk of headwinds up ahead for the wine...
(Possibly) Final Update on Crush Report
Spoke to USDA-NASS today. Here are the takeaways:
As of now, the expected release date for the Crush Report is April 10th.
The preliminary
The Shutdown: A Giant Pain in the Bung Hole
I'm pretty sure I'm shouting into the void here, but to whomever reads this that has any influence over the situation: please don
Latest Update on the Crush Report
If you are a buyer or seller who needs help figuring out how to plan for the future without the Crush Report release; how to resolve payment
Update on Crush Report
For a while, I think some of the folks at USDA-NASS's Pacific Region office must have suspected they had the same guy calling in every...
