SFChron: SutterHome's WhiteZin Former Home

That title oughta draw flocks of folks to this thread!!
Very interesting and well-written article by JonBonne in today's SFChron on the conversion of SutterHome's WhiteZin mega-production facility to custom-crush home for dozens of botique wineries by JoelGott. I first met Joel back around '76 at his Mom&Dad's home up in Plymouth, back when he was a wee-tyke ridin' a wee tricycle, afore Darrell & I headed over to ScottHarvey's wee home for blackened pork tenderloin. Doubt that he remembers that, though.
Tom

JoelGott CustomCrush

If it wasn’t for the growing number of “custom crush” facilities or “co-op” facilities in the US a lot of the ever rising number of “boutique” or smaller wineries in the US would never see their names on a bottle of wine or barrel. In today’s economy, out-sourcing seems the way to go, but the only draw back I see is that instead of having a “family relationship” or "internal relationship" you have now entered into an “industry relationship”.

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