Tag Archives: Napa California
• Napa Earthquake Leads to Wine Bucket Challenge. Who’s Game?
When life — or an earthquake — breaks your wine bottles, make it a challenge. This is one stain to be proud of. When life — or an earthquake — breaks your bottles and smashes your barrels, collect the wine in a bucket — and dump it on your head. Following Sunday’s 6.0-magnitude temblor in Napa, […]
• Earthquake rattles, doesn’t wreck Napa wineries
Near the height of annual harvesting and tourist season, California’s Napa Valley wineries were struck hard by Sunday’s magnitude-6.0 earthquake, but many reported surprisingly light damage. The early morning earthquake, whose epicenter was about 9 miles south of Napa, jolted residents and had winemakers scrambling to check their homes and businesses. “It was a very […]
• Recession Not Over for Wine Industry
At Napa financial symposium, some express doubt that wine sales will ever return to ‘normal’. Napa, Calif. — The announcement by the government that the recession officially ended in July 2009 drew laughs from wine industry investors and players, who absorbed a torrent of information at the 19th annual Wine Industry Financial Symposium (WIFS) held […]
