Wine industry troubles hit local warehouse real estate // Trump set to ‘put farmers in charge’ of migrant workers

The Napa-Solano warehouse real estate market faces challenges as the wine industry struggles, leading to big increases in vacancy and prompting some logistics companies to downsize while others seek expansion to help with vintners’ cost-cutting needs.

President Donald Trump has floated a plan that would ‘put farmers in charge’ of their migrant workers to avoid ICE raids.

The Oregon Beer & Wine Distributors Association, which has opposed previous privatization attempts and opposes this one also is mystified by who might bankroll it.

Napa County approved a 14,729-square-foot underground winery near the Sonoma line, aimed at reducing truck traffic and processing grapes onsite.

A delegation of Wine Institute vintners traveled to Washington, D.C., June 24 -26 to advocate for urgent federal action on key issues facing the U.S. wine sector.

Spirits were down -13.1% in volume and -11.9% in revenue, while wine saw an even deeper dip at -14.3% in volume and -13.8% in revenue.

U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%. Job gains were concentrated in health care and state and local government.

The country’s second-largest alcohol wholesaler is laying off 1,756 employees in California and will shut down its entire business in the state, the latest sign of turmoil in the alcohol industry.

Lamberto Frescobaldi, President of Unione Italiana Vini (UIV), Italy’s leading wine trade body, has warned urgent action must be taken to protect the industry.

"We are losing more consumers than hectares today," warns the president of the Gironde Chamber of Agriculture, who has just surveyed the new uprooting needs of his vineyard: "if things don't improve, it will continue and continue."

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The Umbrian red is famously powerful, but winemakers are now looking to tone down the alcohol and tannin.

The world's most popular white wine grape has undergone a revolution.

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Off the coast of California, south of Salinas and located at the base of the Santa Lucia Mountains, clusters of high-quality pinot noir and chardonnay grapes ripen in the cooling fog, warming sun and perfect soil.

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Only Delaware and Utah have shipping laws that prohibit the delivery of wine, but a new bill could change that in the First State.

Mississippi’s new laws allow direct wine shipments, ban diversity programs, add a community health worker program and more.