Just how much tender loving care can there be for your wine sample?  Not enough! What really happens to your samples that pass through the doors of Turrentine Brokerage? By the time your samples are received at Turrentine Brokerage, we are hard at work marketing them. We process them in an accurate and timely manner Read more

While the rest of the world baked, spring refused to give way to summer in California this year.  But on those few days that summer managed to break through, it blasted and blazed.  One could forgive grapevines – and their human attendants – for being confused.  In the coolest growing regions of the North Coast, Read more

In true David Letterman fashion, these are (comical) statements said to grape buyers by growers while walking through vineyards in California.  In a buyers’s market, these things should never be said: 10. I think this is Cabernet Sauvignon, and I think this is the block. (grower was not sure of variety or location) 9. These Read more

Turrentine Brokerage President, Steve Fredricks, gives his expert insight into the Wine Industry’s Supply Cycle. Wine and Grape Supply Cycle from Rob Olmsted http://www.rgoadvertising.com/.

As a grape broker in the North Coast, I often hear the same question from our grape growing clients… “Can you sell my grapes this year?”  While it seems like a simple question to answer, it is actually not.  Every grower’s situation is different and each of those situations requires specific considerations in relation to Read more

Picture a pendulum, swinging one direction then the next. There is a moment in time, less then a millisecond, when that pendulum stops – appearing almost weightless – before the forces of gravity regain control, changing course and swinging in the opposite direction. When the plumb crosses dead center, it is moving at its greatest Read more

In researching the next issue of the Turrentine Outlook and in preparation for my presentation to the Wine Industry Financial Symposium on September 21st, I am once again reminded of two issues within the Wine Industry: how quickly the market can change and then also how dangerous the perceptions of market conditions can be compared Read more

Harvest is just beginning on the Central Coast.  Some fruit has been picked for sparkling wine production, and Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris grapes are beginning to come in.  Most wineries in the area will be opening up right after Labor Day.  We’re definitely 10 days to two weeks later than usual, although some varieties Read more

In an article published by the Press Democrat on Saturday August 28, 2010, Brian Clements of Turrentine Brokerage was asked to comment on the upcoming Harvest in Sonoma County. Click the link below to read the article. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100828/ARTICLES/100829453?tc=ar

In the North Coast everything is always perfect.  Take this year for instance: mild temperatures throughout the growing season, mostly average crops and plentiful water for irrigation. So far, one would say this year is set up for the harvest of the millennium.  Or, is it? Well….there may be a few things to consider first…. Read more