Have California Winegrape Prices Been Increasing in Price in Real Terms?
Anyone can take a look at the crush report - you can do so really easily using one of my Excel-based tools - and see that grape prices...
Alert: My Last Article is not Conclusive Proof that Women are Better Winemakers!
So, my last blog post "Female Winemakers in California are Generally Better than their Male Counterparts " was my most read blog post...
Female Winemakers in California Are Generally Better Than Their Male Counterparts
I have often lamented the under-representation of women in this business. I have long had the feeling that this under-representation...
Two Graphic Summaries of the Wine Biz
I've been putting together some charts and graphs for some projects and I just wanted to share two of them with the rest of the industry....
The 2014 California Winegrape Variety Awards and Useless Winegrape Market Trivia
So, I haven’t been posting a lot lately because I have a (digital) stack of client projects to get through. But I needed a bit of a...
Is the Vox Video True? Is Expensive Wine for Suckers?
So, as I’m sure happens to many of my readers, anytime someone sees a news article about wine, I’m asked, “Is it true?” Typically, this...
Updated, Glitch-Free Data Tool
Apparently, the version of the tool I sent out the other day had some glitches in it. It has been replaced with a better version that...
Best Grape Data Tool Ever
As any of my readers know I am passionate about the use of data in the wine industry. I want us to stop relying on our gut decisions...
Cognitive Biases in the Wine Industry, Part 3
This is the third article in a series that focuses, basically, on how our brains are wired in a way that misleads us to make poor...
Israel is a Drought-Survival Model for California – But Not the Way Everyone Keeps Telling You
That’s it. I’ve had it. It’s just too much. Any time I hear speakers talk about the drought in California, there is a portion of the...
