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The Central California Winemaking Industry

University of Phoenix

ECO/535

The California Wine Industry

California is number 4 in the world for leading wine production and makes up 81% of all

United States wine. Due to the success of the wine industry in California, it has created 325,000

jobs in California alone and 786,000 nationwide. Each year this draws in 23.6 million tourists to

visit this region which spend 7.2 billion in California ("Media & Trade", 2021). I was shocked to

see how much wine does for the economy through these facts and statistics. Most people don’t

specifically look at where the wine came from as long as it is their favorite variety; for example,

chardonnay, pinot grigio, or merlot. Now that we have a brief overview of the statistics lets dive

into to a deeper analysis of this industry.

Competition and Pricing

California is number one in the United States for wine, but they are rivaled by competing

imports from places like Spain, Italy and France. True wine connoisseurs do their homework on

the brands which is made much easier with technology resources to learn about where it was

made and what factors contribute to their taste and/or overall quality. Just like any other industry

your brand can truly drive you forward and lead consumers to buy more of your product Being

able to differentiate from your competitor can help justify selling their wine at a higher price.

However, the younger generation and millennials are noted as not drinking as much as previous

generations but if they do, they reach for things like seltzers with less calories and lower carbs.

Due to these factors California winemakers are forced to put their higher-quality wine into lower

price bottles because of oversupply (McCoy, 2020).

, Supply Chain

Currently due to the pandemic and as stated previously, millennials are not only not

drinking as much, but they are also not gravitating towards wine either which is causing an

Over supply. Due to their being an oversupply this leads us to believe that there is a

low demand as supply and demand has an inverse relationship. California has a lot of

producers of wine which makes it so there is a very competitive arena. With all of this

being said the more efficient and quicker that they can produce quality wine, get their brand

out there, and market themselves appropriately the more likely they are the ones that will

sell. For example, a well-known winery is typically going to have the latest and greatest

tools to automate manufacturing to speed up the process. Smaller no name wineries will

definitely struggle especially during a time when less people are venturing out to new

places due to the pandemic.

Factors of Production

When it comes to factors of production for the wine industry the top four are land for the

vineyards, labor for someone to work the vineyards, capital whether it be human or land, and

entrepreneurial to run the business and build the brand. Land in the wine industry is extremely

important because of the factors of soil, sunlight, climate, and weather. All of these factors truly

play into what type of wine the entrepreneur can produce and maintain. When it comes to labor

there are many ways that wineries can harvest their crop, but manual is the best. This allows the

pickers to select the best grapes, but it requires more resources and is much slower. There are

many tasks that need to be done in the meantime while the plants are growing such as pruning to

limit the size of the vine and make sure the plant can get sunlight, training and trellising to make

the vines grow in the direction that is needed, and managing the overall canopy (Torres, 2021).

Having a vineyard and picking where it should be located is not something that can be

taken light heartedly. I truly believe that land and the entrepreneur are the most important factors

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