MAY 2025 | ISSUE #150


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THE PETALUMA GAP WINEGROWERS ALLIANCE promotes growers, vintners and
the distinctive wines crafted from grapes grown in the wind-driven AVA.

Healthy Grapevines Begin Flowering at Sweet Family Vineyards

EVENTS

May 2, 16, 23, Live Music at Brooks Note Winery


May 14, Wine Sales Symposium, save $20 with Promo's Code: PGWA2025


May 15, 9:30 - 10:30 AM, Webinar on Grant Opportunities for Your Vineyard


May 16 & June 27, 5-7 PM, Friday Jams at Cline Cellars


June 7, 4 PM, Outstanding in the Field Dinner at McEvoy Ranch


June 12-19, Savor the Flavors of Burgundy Wine Cruise, with the Petaluma Gap Winegrowers


June 18, 10 AM, Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Technical Seminar, How to Thrive in 2025: Treatment. Request an invitation.


July 12, 1-8 PM, Cline Country Bluegrass Festival


July 19, 12:30 - 3 PM, Lobsterfeed at Cline Family Cellars


August 10, 12 - 4 PM, Save the Date for PGWA's Annual Wind to Wine Festival. Tickets will go on sale in mid-May


Cheese Lovers Tastings at Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co, with Farm Talk & Seasonal Chefs Menu, available May-September, bookable 30 days in advance

Visit our winery members' websites for
additional events throughout the year.

NEWS

A Taste of the Soil, article by Dan Berger, Napa Valley Features


Brooks Note Winery wins Double-Gold and Deodora Vineyards wins two 99-Point Awards at the North Coast Wine Challenge


Celebrating Earth Day & 25 Years of Cheesemaking, with Point Reyes Cheese Company


TricorBraun WinePak Launches EcoStep Full-Service Offering to help wineries simplify the process of lowering their environmental impact


Whitney Reuling

Executive Director, Sonoma Family Meal

SPOTLIGHT

Whitney Reuling grew up in the town of Forestville in Sonoma County during the 1990's. Her childhood home was an idyllic setting; with its thriving organic gardens, it inspired her to seek a career in the food industry. After college, where she earned a degree in Sociology, she was looking for ways to combine her interest in social systems with her love of agriculture and the food industry. In 2001, she found the perfect job as Executive Director, Sonoma Family Meal. Here's her story.

90+ PT CLUB

Deodora Vineyards 2019 Riesling, 99 Pts, Best White, Best Sonoma County, Best of Class, and Double Gold, North Coast Wine Challenge


Deodora Vineyards, 2018 Early Cask Pinot Noir, 99 Pts, Best of Class, Double Gold, North Coast Wine Challenge


Brooks Note 2023 Pinot Noir, Petaluma Gap, 98 Pts, Best of Class, Double Gold, North Coast Wine Challenge


Thirty-Seven Wines 2022 "The Hermit" Reserve Red Wine Blend, 96 Pts and Double Gold, North Coast Wine Challenge


Blue Farm 2022 Pinot Noir, Gaps Crown Vineyard, 94 Pts, North Coast Wine Challenge


Merryvale Vineyards 2023 Chardonnay, Sun Chase Vineyard, 94 Pts, James Suckling


Thirty-Seven Wines 2023 Albarino, 94 Pts, and Best of Class


Merryvale Vineyards 2022 Pinot Noir, Sun Chase Vineyard, 93 Pts, James Suckling


Cline Cellars 2022 Gust Pinot Noir, 90 Pts, Wine Spectator


Cline Cellars 2023 Gust Chardonay, 90 Pts, Wine Spectator


Darling Wines, 2023 Chardonnay, Petaluma Gap, 9/10 Pts, Vinography




EDUCATION

Wine Report: Year of Adjustment Ahead, article by Jeff Quackenbush, North Bay Business Journal


The Real Reasons Gen Z is Drinking Less, Report by Bourcard Nesin, Rabobank


Wineries Must Proactively Reach, Retain Drinkers to Survive, BMO report and article by Jeff Quackenbush, North Bay Business Journal (paywall)


Wine Clubs, Subscriptions and the Future of Loyalty, article by Nate Westfall


Improve Accuracy and Save Time on Grape Sampling with VineView

CLASSIFIEDS

Bulk wine for sale: 700 gallons 2024 Petaluma Gap Pinot Noir, single vineyard, clones 115, 667, and Pommard 5. Sustainably faramed, 25% new French oak, custom-crushed by Dutton-Goldfield. Contact Scott at 707-799-8426.

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