The tasting room is ready before the first guest ever walks through the door. Shelves are lined with fresh bottles, each one positioned just so. No dust. No fingerprints on the bottles. Behind the bar, glasses stand in perfect rows, polished, disappearing in the tasting room light. Tables wiped down, chairs pulled out at just […]
Wine Business
Harvest Season Looks Different This Year: Here’s How to Prepare
I don’t think there is any way to get around the fact that there’s a lot working against wineries heading into harvest 2026. Oversupply in the broader market, rising production costs, unpredictable weather patterns, and labor shortages have made pre-harvest planning more critical, and more complicated, than it has been in years. The wineries that […]
After the Freeze: How Wineries Can Manage Extreme Crop Loss
Throughout April, most of the Eastern seaboard and parts of the Midwest experienced a series of frost and freeze events that will likely have an impact on the 2026 wine grape supply. The most extreme of these events was through the April 21st morning in which several states experienced record low temperatures for several hours (Vigna […]
