Article: Kendall-Jackson Opens Healdsburg Plaza Tasting Room.

Article: Tasting room rewards: how staff compensation can raise the bar on direct sales.(MANAGEMENT)
Wines & Vines;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Tasting room and wine club sales remain the most reliable and...representative sample of professionals who focus on tasting room sales for multiple wineries, and with individual tasting room managers to find out the norms and their recommendations...

Article: Washington Hills to Close Tasting Room
Yakima Herald-Republic;  December 21, 2001 ;     408 words ......Cellars will ring in the new year without its tasting room. The winery will close its tasting room and gift shop on Dec. 31. It's also letting...make," he said. He plans to reopen the tasting room March 1 and be open for barrel tasting...

Article: Added value for tasting rooms: play to your strengths to make your tasting room a destination.(MARKETING)
Wines & Vines;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......success may inspire you to lift your tasting room to another level. Make it personal Face...Valley's Deer Park, originally operated its tasting room from the family home, with tastings...working single mother. A fully functional tasting room opened in 2002. Direct sales from the...

Article: Behind the bar: what not to forget when stocking your tasting room.(MARKETING)
Wines & Vines;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......shopping list when he began setting up the tasting room at his new winery in Southern California...cap out at 15,000 cases-through the tasting room and his new wine club; the rest will...to local restaurants. The expansive tasting room is housed in a two-story, 5,000-square-fo...

Article: Pros to teach tasting room management: Sonoma State certificate program draws seasoned veterans.(DECEMBER NEWS)
Wines & Vines;  December 1, 2008 ;     318 words ......expanding Wine Business Program is a Tasting Room Management Certificate. Students must...Program, the certificate will help prepare tasting room staff to step up to more responsibility...with Hospitality Management for the Tasting Room. Instructor Pamela Personette, director...

Article: Gallo Family Opens First Tasting Room.
PR Newswire;  October 9, 2002 ;     305 words ......Gallo Family is opening a public wine tasting room featuring the family's award-winning...at comfortable tables and chairs. The tasting room will revolve around a three and one...appellations or rare, estate wines. The tasting room provides a simple, yet elegant back...

Article: Tasting Room set to reopen.
Newsday (Melville, NY);  June 29, 2006 ;     390 words ...Byline: Mark Harrington Jun. 29--The Tasting Room, a Peconic establishment that features...Wine Cellars, will open adjacent to The Tasting Room and offer custom wine cellars and refrigerators...Dilworth said she decided to maintain the Tasting Room moniker and keep the concept of ...

Article: Washington Hills Tasting Room Ready to Reopen
Yakima Herald-Republic;  February 28, 2002 ;     346 words ......economic downturn prompted closure of its tasting room, Washington Hills Cellars has renovated...see a resurgence in tourism," said new tasting room manager Jean-Jacques "J.J." Compeau...in-state vacations." Closure of the tasting room and gift shop on Dec. 31 took six jobs...

Article: Tasting room glassware goes upscale.(Marketing Matters)
Wines & Vines;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......often--than standard glassware, many tasting room managers and winery owners believe that...enhance their brand image and increase tasting room sales. Dr. Konstantin Frank Vinifera...should use the Riedel glasses in our tasting room. The decision turned out to be more...

Article: Training the front line troops: three pros recommend how to improve tasting room sales.
Wines & Vines;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......across the continent revealed that tasting room sales account for 51%--or more...this bounty in his till? Are your tasting room sales really all that they might be? If it's time to tune up your tasting room staff, we've gathered some useful...

Article: E.&J. Gallo Winery Opens Its First-Ever Tasting Room in Healdsburg, Calif.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 8, 2002 ;     366 words ......J. Gallo Winery is opening a public tasting room. No, it's not in Modesto, where the...headquarters since it was founded in 1933. The tasting room is in downtown Healdsburg in Sonoma...its upscale Gallo of Sonoma wines. The tasting room is another departure for Gallo, which...

Article: 3 wineries want tasting room in downtown Lodi.
Record (Stockton, CA);  October 6, 2006 ;     501 words ......three local wineries. A downtown wine-tasting room proposed by the Van Ruiten Family Winery...manager Candie Mondo said. Mondo said the tasting room will divvy up space on the wine bar...Winery opened Lodi's first downtown tasting room at 115 N. School St., Suite 4. The Lodi...

Article: Peninsula tasting room promotes local vintners
Oakland Tribune;  August 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......local wineries are in for a treat. A new tasting room, the Mountain Terrace Wine Bar & Cafe...said Alecia Blazei, a partner in the tasting room with four other women. "Some of the...local wineries on any given day at the tasting room. Wines also are available by the full...

Article: Winery plans downtown tasting room
Journal of Business;  September 1, 2005 ;     245 words ......Spokane Valley, plans to open an off-site tasting room later this year at River Park Square...company has leased a small space for the tasting room in the Atrium Cafes, on the mall's third...area and a Subway sandwich shop. The tasting room will have a wine bar and some retail...