{"id":350893,"date":"2026-06-07T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350893\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:33:10","slug":"california-wine-giant-gallo-announces-facility-closure-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/350893\/","title":{"rendered":"California wine giant Gallo announces facility closure, layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modesto-based alcohol producer and distributor Gallo announced it will close one of its facilities and lay off 20 workers, industry publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winebusiness.com\/news\/article\/318821\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wine Business<\/a> reported, the latest in a string of shutdowns the company has enacted during a troubling period for the wine industry.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Gallo, the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/wine\/article\/gallo-wine-layoffs-20786253.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">largest wine company<\/a>, said the closure of its crush facility in Lodi (San Joaquin County) \u2014 a production house that turns grapes into wine for growers lacking their own facilities \u2014 \u201creflects available capacity in our other wineries in the region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laid-off workers had been \u201cindividually notified\u201d and were receiving support from the company, the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closure of Gallo\u2019s crush facility on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/case\/32-RC-385859\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Turner Road<\/a> is one of a string of recent shutdowns for the alcohol giant. Earlier this year, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/gallo-wine-layoffs-california-st-helena-ranch-winery\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the closure<\/a> of three Bay Area locations, including its Ranch Winery in Helena, causing nearly 100 workers to lose their jobs. The wine giant also shuttered its 300,000-square-foot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/wine\/article\/gallo-wine-layoffs-20786253.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtside Cellars<\/a> winery in San Luis Obispo County last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s $55 billion wine industry has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/wine\/article\/california-wine-industry-downturn-18711236.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been in crisis<\/a> for three years, driven by record declines in American alcohol consumption, growing awareness of alcohol\u2019s health risks and the increased popularity of wine alternatives such as hard seltzers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svb.com\/trends-insights\/reports\/wine-report\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">industry report<\/a> published in January by Silicon Valley Bank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/food\/wine\/article\/california-industry-crisis-downturn-21292872.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">predicted that<\/a> U.S. wine sales will continue to decline in 2026, albeit not as steeply as in 2025, then essentially flatline in 2027 or 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analysts predict at that point the industry will begin to recover, with Napa and Sonoma counties improving more rapidly than other wine-growing regions of the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Modesto-based alcohol producer and distributor Gallo announced it will close one of its facilities and lay off 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,413,3945],"class_list":["post-350893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-food","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}