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,...

Just back from the frozen hamlet of Cloverdale in northern Sonoma County, where the Citrus Fairgrounds this past week played host to the 2023 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The Chronicle is the nation’s largest wine competition, this year drawing some 5500...

Sacramento’s hospitality trade is to get a shot of adrenaline, personality and money next week when an anticipated 12,000 persons roll into town for the 29th Unified Grape & Wine Symposium. The nation’s largest wine conference, Unified will be staged mostly at the...

Brothers Tyler and Trevor Grace make wine at their family’s Lewis Grace Winery in the Apple Hill district just outside Placerville in El Dorado County. They harvest grapes from the same estate vineyard. They make wine side by side in the same cellar. They sometimes...