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Tragedy of the commons……local mom & pop businesses can’t afford to compete so the losers are the locals. In response to the Sonoma Tasting Room moratorium story…. Tasting rooms ban EDITOR: Kudos to the Sonoma City Council for pulling the plug on more tasting rooms around the plaza in Sonoma, in light of the …
Sonoma Tasting Room moratorium: Preserve Rural Sonoma County response Read More »
Influential wine writer Liza B. Zimmerman asks a question that Wine and Water Watch has been trying to find an answer to for several years: “How many tasting rooms are too many? “ “Is Sonoma overdoing the number of tasting rooms in the town center?” Her investigative report (November 2017) found that many wine industry …
Wine tourism: booming. Mass transit: zooming. Big cannabis: looming. For a once-quiet agricultural region, Sonoma is suddenly an economic engine. And not everybody’s loving the noise. By Patrick Hoge 9/25/17 https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-new-sonoma-crush-0/ Liza Hinman lives in two Sonoma County worlds on the same continuum. In one, she is cofounder and chef of the Spinster Sisters, a …
The following letter to the PD published in Sundays paper hit the nail on the head when it comes to all the problems of an out of control winery event and tasting room expansions. Europe has a business model that truly works. We have a failed model in this county that only the large corporate …
A Better Location for winery events and tasting rooms Read More »
From our friends at Preserve Rural Sonoma County: Friends, Happy 4th weekend! As many of you may recall, we have been working on the production of some video clips to help spread our message. Many have already been completed and the first one we are releasing is below, featuring Ernie Carpenter. (Ernie did an amazing …
“How the Redwood Empire became Wine Country” by Preserve Rural Sonoma County Read More »
Comment from article: Food + Wine = More Wine, please. Reality is: Sonoma and Napa counties no longer engage in “Wine Tasting” … wineries make far more revenue from “long duration drinking” paired with food. Sit tourists down in your tasting room or serve them “wine and food pairings” at a table. In addition to revenue …
Healdsburg again ponders restricting the number of tasting rooms in town Read More »