Will Marijuana Legalization Reduce Wine Consumption?
Sometimes I think that the wine industry is like a hypochondriac. We have plenty of immediate worries: the macroeconomy, overplanting,...
State Control of Alcohol Distribution Does Not Reduce Drunk Driving Deaths
I haven’t written anything for this blog for quite a while, due to a backup of work for clients, but I have cleared a couple of days for...
A chart of how women's educational attainment correlates to a country's per capita wine cons
This chart and the table below it show the World Economic Forum ranking for 142 countries for which data exists, by women’s educational...
Cabernet Franc Prices vs. Cabernet Sauvignon Prices, 1991-2014
I've got more charts for you! This one is an historical comparison of Cab Franc to Cab Sauv prices. Cab Franc is in the foreground in...
The Relative Importance of Each Winegrape District
I am releasing another chart for public use. Just please keep the attribution in. The bars show the percentage of statewide, total...
Inflation-Adjusted Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Prices
As part of my continuing project to make available to the industry charts from different projects I've worked on, here is a chart of Napa...
Response to Ernie Carpenter
Today, at the Sonoma County Viticultural Technical Group meeting we spoke a bit about the importance of not killing off microbial...
Price per Ton vs. Tons per Acre in Sonoma County
As part of my push to release graphs I have made to the industry for their use, I am posting this graph that shows for five top...
The Napa Paradox - Cabernet vs. Diversification by the Numbers
In May I presented at the Vineyard Economics Seminar. One topic I focused on was the paradox of the continuing concentration on Cabernet...
Per Capita Wine Consumption in the US by Decade
There are three things that I think hold this industry back: 1) Under-utilization of data and objective facts. 2) Duplication of...
