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A look at Wine Marketing from Paul Wagner: Napa Valley College’s Newest McPherson Distinguished Teaching Award Winner

Trump’s Trade War Encircles The Napa Valley

Over the past  several years, the Napa Valley has increased the amount of wine it exports to China.  In response to Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum, the Chinese have retaliated by placing tariffs on hundred of American products, including wine.  We decided to take look at how this might impact two Napa winery.  

We spoke to Michael Honig, President of Honig Winery and Vineyards, and Scott Meadows, the GM of Silenus Winery.

Conaway / Schechtman: The Book, The Conversation

Jim Conaway’s new book, the final chapter in his Napa trilogy, NAPA AT LAST LIGHT, portrays our Napa Valley as a community trashed by vineyards and wineries, overrun with tourists and the rich, somehow immune from the immutable laws of business gravity and with a population that doesn’t know how to protect itself.  Only he, and those that were here in 1968, seem to know the “truth.” 

The arguments that wine has to literally be sold to real people in order to actually have real value, that the wine business, even in Napa, is a highly competitive, cost-intensive international business, existing in a world of distribution and retail disruption, seems to have no impact on Conaway.  From high atop his East Coast perch, he launches attacks on our Board of Supervisors, the Napa Valley Vintners and all of the institutions that have made our economy and our county so strong.

As so many small cities and towns across America are being hollowed out,  Conaway seems to resent Napa’s economic success, and longs for the days of yore.  Thank goodness the Butler Bridge is not a drawbridge, or I’m sure he would suggest pulling it up.

My conversation with Jim Conaway:

2018 State of the Wine Industry Report – A Conversation with Rob McMillan

The Silicon Valley Bank 20018 State of the Wine Industry Report

Beans, Guns and Fedex…How Rancho Gordo’s Steve Stando Took a Stand

What We Can Learn About Tourism From Carmel: There problems are very much like our. A conversation with Carmel hotel owner and Vice Mayor Carrie Theis

Professional Baseball Comes To Napa: All About The Napa Silverados

The Future of Hotels: Frictionless AND Personal Luxury: The Clement: Palo Alto

California Is More Important Than Ever: Here Is How To Stay On Top of All of It

Learn about the California Sun. My conversation with its founder and editor Mike McPhate

All Wine, All The Time: A look at the Wine Country Channel

NVC Board of Trustees 7.12.18

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A Conversation with Mary Ann Mancuso: President of the Napa Valley College Board of Trustees