This year’s Grand Tasting takes place Sept. 12 at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.
Tag: Wine
Posted inAgriculture & Fishing
Safety standards could be preventing greater safety in Mendocino County’s vineyards?
Organic vineyards can use autonomous machines to fight disease with UV lamps rather than spray. But state code meant to protect workers mandates human direction.
Posted inAgriculture & Fishing
Judge called federal farmworker wage cut unlawful. Mendocino vineyards are still working under it.
The rule lets a grower pay a visa worker less than the worker beside them. Backpay may be coming.
Posted inIslands and Valleys
Anderson Valley’s earliest harvest meets its oldest problem: Visibility
The vintage is arriving faster than any the growers can remember — in a world-renowned appellation whose wine you still can’t find in a Safeway.
Posted inIslands and Valleys
On Mendocino Ridge, a winemaker says wine’s real problem is trust
“Regenerative,” “sustainable,” “natural” — they’ve been stuck on so many bottles that a shopper has no way to tell which ones mean anything.