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California wine producers are engaged in relentless innovation to reduce the industry’s environmental impact and boost its sustainability.

Photo credit: Pexels / Tim Mossholder. News from California throughout the 2020 harvest season was overwhelmingly focused on devastation: record heat waves, uncontrollable wildfires, burned vineyards, smoke tainted wines, and shuttered tasting rooms.  The worst fire season on record will cause most people to remember 2020 as the Golden State’s worst harvest on record. But in reality, the percentage of grapes impacted by smoke taint across the states was lower than many vintners expected, with entire swaths of California wine country unaffected, according to early lab tests conducted by win...

January 11, 2021 Sonoma County, CA - Sonoma State University’s Wine Business Institute announces the commemoration of its 25th anniversary to celebrate the institute’s legacy as a pioneer in providing wine business education and research. In 1998, the WBI was the first in the U.S. to offer an undergraduate degree focused on the business of wine, followed by a Wine MBA in 2008, and an Executive Wine MBA in 2012. The institute has conferred 1,196 wine business degrees, including undergraduate and graduate, and awarded 551 certificates. The institute’s faculty have produced over 700 publi...