Sonoma County has 63 000 acres of vineyards and produces on order of 200 000 000 bottles of wine a year. The wine industry is huge part of our exporting and tourist economies and a large part of the experience of living here. Which is why I am excited to host our first industry expert.
In her twenty years in the Wine Industries of Italy, Spain, and Sonoma County, Brooke Herron has had a dozen roles, from wine pourer to e-commerce consultant to wine judge - most recently with the SF Chronicles Annual, which is the biggest survey of North American wines. As Sonoma County's most prominent wine journalist she has written for the likes of Decanter, The SOMM journal, Sonoma Magazine, The North Bay Bohemian, Fodor's, and Italy Magazine.
Brooke talks breaking into wine journalism, judging, tasting, the romance of wine, wine as a model of connoisseurship, Sonoma county's 19 grape growing regions, the branding of Sonoma County as Wine Country, reactions against that, problems the industry has engendered, and the major trends and changes the industry faces heading into an uncertain future.
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