# Esther Mobley

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The Wine Press: New School Nouveau

Today in Wine News It’s the third Thursday of November, which means Beaujolais Nouveau can now make its way into the hands and glasses of eager consumers ready for the first taste of the 2024 harvest. Decades after Beaujolais producer Georges Duboeuf popularized the style and made it an unofficial …

Cru-Tang Clan: Uncorking the Magic and Celebration of 25 Years 'World of Pinot Noir'

Adam is giving away tickets to the World of Pinot Noir’s Friday and Saturday Grand Tastings happening February 28 & March 1, 2025, at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara. Head to AdamMontiel.com to enter for your chance to win! World of Pinot Noir – 25 Years of Pinot Perfection In this specia…

Esther Mobley

Esther Mobley is an award-winning wine journalist and the Senior Wine Critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she has been covering wine, beer, and spirits since 2015. Mobley is widely recognized for her in-depth reporting on the wine industry, with a particular focus on the business, culture,…

How's California's wine industry doing?

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 Olivia Haver loves cheese so much, she has devoted her career to babysitting it Exploring her roots, recipe developer Noor Murad …

If and Only If: The Emergence of Sphaerics Wines with Laura Jones and Brian Ball

I recently learned about the powerhouse husband and wife duo Brian Ball and Laura Jones and their new Chardonnay focused winery, Sphaerics. I'm always interested to learn about other small family operated wineries, especially when we are neighbors here in Sonoma County AND they are also created by …

206: Esther Mobley - San Francisco Chronicle

Join me as I sit down with Esther Mobley, Senior Wine Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Esther shares her fascinating journey from an English major to a wine journalist, starting with a harvest internship in Napa Valley and subsequently working in Mendoza, Argentina. Her career path led her t…

Are There Too Many Wineries in America?

Adam, Joanna, and Zach discuss a recent column by Esther Mobley in the San Francisco Chronicle positing that there are simply too many wineries in California for the current market to support. Is this in fact true? If so, what happens next? Please remember to subscribe to, rate, and review The Vine…

Esther Mobley on California's wine crisis

Esther Mobley, a wine critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, talks about California's wine industry crisis — nearly 5,000 wineries competing for declining demand, 38,000 vineyard acres removed in 2025, mounting closures. She discusses why younger generations aren't drinking wine, what happens to t…

The Wine Industry In Crisis

Esther Mobley, the senior wine critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, joins me on the California Sun podcast to talk about California and the world’s wine industry crisis — In California alone, nearly 5,000 wineries competing for declining demand, 38,000 vineyard acres removed in 2025, mounting cl…

Judgment of Paris at 50: Still Relevant? Esther Mobley’s take plus her 10 Years at the San Francisco Chronicle Covering a Changing Wine Industry, Ep 126

We’re popping the cork on a milestone moment, the 50th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris, the legendary blind tasting that shocked the wine world and put California wine on the global map in a big way. To help us unpack what it all meant then and what it means now, we’re joined by wine journalis…