California Winery News

Two massive and growing fires are burning in napa and sonoma counties wineries and vineyards within the hennesy fire boundaries include foley johnson winery geodesy s sage ridge vineyard the 130 year old nichelini winery and brown estate.

California winery news. Hundreds of small businesses in california s wine country have shuttered due to the pandemic and that was before the lighting wildfires and power outages hit. The latest fires first broke out at 8 58 a m. A unique quality of the mexican crews that work in california is that at harvest 50 percent of their wives also come up and pick grapes holman said. California is in the midst of another unimaginable repeat of the fires that swept through napa and sonoma three years ago in late 2017 and 2019.

While hundreds of lightning sparked wildfires burning in california seem to have spared wineries so far vintners say smoke and evacuations still pose a risk the fall wine harvest. The tally confirmed sunday night by cal fire officials offers the first definitive look at the destruction wrought by walbridge the 52 068 acre piece of the lnu lightning complex fires in sonoma napa and solano counties that have blackened 347 630 acres destroying 871 structures and threatening another 30 500. Economy according to a 2015 report by. Wine grape growing wine production and wine related tourism in california contribute 57 6 billion to the state s economy and 114 1 billion to the u s.

News and information for wine industry professionals. Indoor operations at restaurants wineries and tasting rooms. Gavin newsom d has ordered wineries and beaches in the state to close due to the coronavirus pandemic however the draconian regulations do not apply to his own winery in napa valley. In 2017 blazes tore through both napa and sonoma counties as well as others.

In recent years large wildfires have become an unfortunately inevitable part of california winemaking.