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Gallo closing another San Luis Obispo County winery

July 26, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

Another victim of the struggling wine industry, Gallo recently reported plans to close its Courtside Winery production facility in San Miguel on Dec. 1, which will result in the loss off 47 jobs.

In 2024, Gallo sold two properties located in San Luis Obispo County. The sales included the Edna Valley Vineyard facility in south county and the former Wild Horse winery in the Templeton area, which sold for $8 million to Continental Wine Collection.

Layoffs at Gallo’s 300,000-square-foot production facility in San Miguel are slated to begin in September.

“We expect the layoffs and closing to be permanent in nature,” according to a Gallo filing. “This closing will involve cessation of all operations and termination of all employees at the site.”

 


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The California business enviroment claims another victim, thanks Governor Newsom.


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It’s the changing demographics not government. Younger people aren’t drinking so much wine. Free market economics.


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But I hear the Fench Laundry is selling more wine than before the Covid shutdown.


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This was Gallo’s attempt to create a higher scale product line for themselves. They didn’t find a reliable market and retracted. California business practices have little to do with wine decisions being made worldwide. They aren’t going out of business as they remain the world’s largest wine producer in both volume and sales.

So there is no need to thank anyone except Gallo and their decision making team.

Someone will buy and fill in the void. I doubt it is going back to alfalfa fields and rolling golden hillside.


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I happily recall the heady days of my youth, as the Portagee cowboys would bring in the steers, and the Basque shepherds would round up their flocks on the SLO ranch. Gallo wine, Red, Port, and Sherry, in the big gallon green glass jugs, would flow freely….except to the impressionable young bucks…while the BBQ fire would not go out for 4 days, as the herds would be tagged and readied for sale, and the flocks were shorn of their wool for market.


Just a glorious week for a kid, with lots of work, lots of food, and lots of friends.


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