One of my favorite segments on SBTV.com profiles an award-winning California winemaker who is also the first Mexican-American woman to be president of a wine production company in the United States . SBTV.com CEO Susan Wilson Solovic toured Ceja winery and brings us a different view of the fruit of the vines. You can view it with a click here.
Susan's interview with Ameilai Ceja is an example of how independent businesses around the California wine industry are a formidable force. Independent vintners and small businesses around the wine industry have helped make California the world’s fourth largest wine producer.
practices embraced by the independent business owners growing grapes and operating successful wineries.
“Consumers are interested in knowing where and how their wines
are grown and made, and the California wine community has responded
by becoming a progressive advocate of environmentally conscious
practices,” notes Robert Koch, President and CEO of Wine
Institute.
At the heart of California’s sustainability movement is the Code of
Sustainable Wine Growing, a 16-chapter workbook that lays out best
practices to farm and make wine from the ground to the
glass.
For more information about California's Sustainable Wine
growing Program, go to www.sustainablewinegrowing.org, www.cawg.org,
www.wineinstitute.org, or www.discovercaliforniawine.com.
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