by Arilyn | Jun 24, 2021 | News
Central Valley Insights We are just finishing up the third week of June and it is definitely feeling like summer in California’s Central Valley. We ended this last week with highs of 111 degrees over the past few days and it is a hot reminder that the beginning of...
by Arilyn | May 28, 2021 | News
Meet our newest addition to the AV team, Carra. While some girls were made of sugar and spice and everything nice, others like Carra are made of sarcasm, wine and everything fine. Carra Elliott was born and raised in Washington with a family legacy dating back to the...
by Arilyn | May 11, 2021 | News
Happy Spring 2021 my WineGrape brothers & sisters! As we emerge from our “COVID cocoons”, we see a more optimistic grape and wine market than that of March 2020 and before. The under-$20 wine market is on fire. The COVID shutdown strained consumers’ wine budgets...
by Arilyn | Feb 5, 2021 | News
It’s 1 week after Unified Symposium (Ha!) and what’s the word?… BULK WINE! Bulk sales are brisk. Bulk sales activity in December & January were the hottest we’ve seen in the last 10 years. Aromatic whites, especially Muscats and 2019 Petite Sirah were the...
by Arilyn | Jan 12, 2021 | News
I think it is safe to say no one will forget the 2020 Vintage. The wine grape market was already struggling for the third year in a row and then a pandemic, wildfires, and economic uncertainty hit us all at once. We saw a large shift from on-premises sales to largely...
by Sev LaHonta | Dec 20, 2018 | News
Wow! What a ride that was! As the winemaker for Agajanian Vineyards & Wine Company, I get to see it all – from early ripening grapes in the Central Valley to Cabernet Sauvignon in the North Coast. Our first grapes were in on August 9th and the last crush was...
