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Each bimonthly issue is tightly edited and smartly designed to deliver profitable insights into today's wine industry - to help you tune up your production practices and supercharge your marketing.
Recent issues have explored:
- Wine Pricing Strategies
- Viognier Blends
- Targeting Generation X
- The World's Most Important Wines
- Cellar Management
- The Latest on Cloning
- Marketing to Wholesalers
- plus winery profiles and new product reviews.
Editorial content ranges from vineyard planning, maintenance and harvesting, to wine production, aging, marketing and distribution. Vineyard and winery owners and managers can also find assistance with finances, legal issues, personal management and long-term planning.
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vineyard managers read the viticulture features, the tasting room staff uses the sales
information, and in the cellar, we rely on the production and equipment articles. All of us
depend on the management articles to keep up-to-date with regulations and practices."
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Murphy-Goode Estate Winery
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Clos du Bois Wines
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Viansa Winery and Italian Marketplace
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Kenwood Vineyards
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St. Supery Vineyards & Winery
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Several times a year, in-depth interviews with skilled winemakers are presented. There, readers learn step-by-step, what equipment and procedures winemakers use from vineyard to cellar, showing how they make America's top quality wines. Columns about label design, winery architecture and equipment maintenance and special profiles on successful growers and vintners complete the package.
Vineyard & Winery Management is the only wine and grape industry magazine to focus on management of people and process. Its broad range of comprehensive content makes it required reading for today's successful winegrower.
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V&WM REGULAR COLUMNS
On-Line Marketing:By Veronica Barclay, Barclay & Associates, Napa. In a very short period of time, Barclay's column has become extremely popular. When she runs a three-part series, new subscribers call in numbers to request previous issues. Her last big hit: Programming and Incentives: How to Manage Successful Programs.
Uncorking PR:
By Mike Miller of Brown-Miller Associates, Martinez. Miller's
column has dealt with such important issues as How to Write an Effective Newsletter, and
How to Get Wine Writers' Attention. These are issues facing every winery.
Compliance Watch:
By Sara Schorske, Compliance Specialists, Santa Rosa.
Every winery must face mountains of paper to meet government standards. Schorske
makes this dreaded job understandable and easy by introducing techniques and computer
programs to cut time and meet deadlines.
Market Watch:
By Wilfred Wong, wine buyer for Beverages and More, and consultant. Virtually every
winery in the North Coast knows Wong, who has been buying wine from them for many
years. He tells them in each issue what it is that makes their wines marketable to buyers
such as himself and others. One of his latest columns was entitled: Anything But
Chardonnay? Not just any Chardonnay! A New Class of Chardonnay That You Can't
Throw Your ABC's At. Provocative, timely editorial.
Irrigated Vineyards
By Richard Thomas, consultant and college instructor. Tips and techniques for irrigated vineyards.
Vineyard Perspectives
Contributions by eastern viticulture consultants, focusing on key topics of concern to growers of non-irrigated vineyards.
Wine Cellar Management:
By Dr. Richard Vine, wine buyer for American
Airlines and Purdue University Professor. Vine has a rich and varied background in the
wine industry, and is known throughout the country as a powerful and fair proponent of
American wines. His columns have been among the best read since he began his
association with V&WM.
Voice Mail:
This is one of the newer columns. It is a forum where winemakers
can discuss and challenge. Latest debate centered around UC Davis' approach to teaching
winemakers. The responses are still coming in, and discussion may last many months.
Winery Feature of the Month: Every month V&WM features a particularly successful winery. Secrets of their success are the main message - facts every winery can use to enhance their own program to grow and succeed.
