At the recent Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in Sacramento, one message often iterated was that if wineries hope to connect with a younger clientele they need to introduce programs that offer visitors entertainment and engagement. Bogle Family Vineyards just...

Joe Shebl is saddled up and about to proceed with the next leg of his ride into California wine lore as one of the state’s more reliable, adaptable and daring winemakers. His new brand is aptly named “Stride,” a term that evokes strength and determination. Think Pony...

Either as an aside or at length, wine-writing friends often call out “neo-Prohibitionists.” These are people my colleagues they see as not liking wine and who seek bliss in denying it to others. Myself, I can’t get alarmed by “neo-Prohibitionists.” There are few of...

As I headed over to the Hyatt Regency Sacramento one morning this past week I ran into one of my favorite midtown characters. “Where are you going, Mr. Dunne?” he asked. I told him my destination was the all-important “state of the industry” presentation at the...

I am not on Twitter, but if I were, these are tweets I would have sent from today’s first series of seminars at the 29th Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, the nation’s largest wine-related trade show, expected to draw about 12,000 registrants and 875 exhibitors to...

This exercise should end my recent preoccupation with ChatGPT, the hugely popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) program meant principally for customer-service dialogue but raising concerns that it also could be exploited to create unoriginal and uncredited term papers,...