How's California's wine industry doing?
Good Food
KCRW
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Bottoms up for vino?
- Between declining alcohol consumption and increasing tariffs, Esther Mobley updates us on how California's wine industry is meeting this moment
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Evan Kleinman and this is Good Food. |
| 0:05.1 | The U.S. government is expected to release new dietary guidelines for Americans in the coming |
| 0:11.2 | weeks. The last edition of the guidelines was released in 2020 and spanned 164 pages. |
| 0:19.5 | This time, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised a four-page |
| 0:26.1 | document that tells people, and this is a quote, to eat the food that's good for you. Kennedy has |
| 0:33.9 | publicly vilified ultra-processed foods, artificial food dives, and seed oils, |
| 0:39.6 | but he's been noticeably silent on one major category, alcohol. |
| 0:46.4 | Alcohol consumption is seeing its lowest levels since 1962. |
| 0:51.7 | And as early as next year, Ireland will be the first country to prominently print warnings on labels linking drinking to cancer and other illnesses. |
| 1:02.2 | What does this mean for the wine industry? |
| 1:05.4 | We last spoke to Esther Mobley, wine critic for the San Francisco Chronicle about Fred Francia, the man behind |
| 1:12.3 | two buck chuck. |
| 1:13.6 | Hi, Esther. |
| 1:14.6 | Welcome back to good food. |
| 1:16.3 | Hi, so happy to be back. |
| 1:18.6 | So my understanding is that alcohol consumption went up during the pandemic, but now moderation |
| 1:25.5 | is in vogue. |
| 1:27.3 | With non-alcoholic wine and spirits gaining popularity, |
| 1:31.2 | how is the wine community responding? |
| 1:35.0 | Well, the California wine industry, |
| 1:38.2 | which is a $55 billion industry, |
| 1:40.8 | is scrambling to try to figure out how to meet this moment. So, you know, it's worth |
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