TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Tracy Cleveland - Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights & Measures
REPORT BY: Tracy Cleveland - Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights & Measures
SUBJECT: 2025 Great Wine Capitals Report
RECOMMENDATION
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Receive a presentation by Board Chair Amber Manfree, Supervisor Anne Cottrell, Chief Executive Officer Ryan J. Alsop, Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights & Measures Tracy Cleveland, Visit Napa Valley CEO and President Linsey Gallagher, and Napa Valley Vintners on Napa County’s participation in the 2025 Great Wine Capitals (GWC) Annual Conference held in Bordeaux, France on November 1-7, 2025. (No Fiscal Impact)
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BACKGROUND
The Great Wine Capitals Global Network (GWC) is an organization representing the most distinguished wine regions of the world. The GWC works to encourage international winery tourism as well as economic, academic, and cultural exchanges between members. Only one region per country can be selected as a “Great Wine Capital” and Napa Valley - San Francisco has been designated to represent the United States. Napa Valley - San Francisco joined the GWC in 2006. The cost of membership is jointly shared by the Napa Valley Vintners, Visit Napa Valley, and the County of Napa. Representatives meet annually in a designated wine capital. The Board of Supervisors have agreed on the importance of County officials participating in the GWC program due to the global nature of the wine business in Napa County and the forum created by GWC to discuss issues of economic significance to the County and local wine industry.
Current GWC members include Adelaide, South Australia; Bilbao-Rioja, Spain; Bordeaux, France; Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand; Lausanne, Switzerland; Mainz-Rheinhessen, Germany; Mendoza, Argentina; Napa Valley- San Francisco, USA; Porto, Portugal; Valparaiso-Casablanca Valley, Chile; and Verona, Italy.
FISCAL IMPACT
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Is there a Fiscal Impact? |
No |
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The proposed action is not a project as defined by 14 California Code of Regulations 15378 (State CEQA Guidelines) and therefore CEQA is not applicable.