http://sonoma.net/blog/dry-creek-valley-land-and-ranches-232.htm Your friendly local source for Sonoma County information Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:36:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://sonoma.net/blog/dry-creek-valley-land-and-ranches-232.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1841 davesonoma Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:11:34 +0000 http://sonoma.net/blog/?p=232#comment-1841 My feeling is that producing your own wine is the most reasonable way to get a decent roi. You're just not going to have enough margin unless you own the land outright. With farming only the roi at +/- $100K planted cost per acre is only going to be 2-4% by the fourth year. If you have the right clones and great soil and exposure you might bump that up to 5%or even more in later years, but you're never going to get rich on growing grapes. My feeling is that producing your own wine is the most reasonable way to get a decent roi. You’re just not going to have enough margin unless you own the land outright. With farming only the roi at +/- $100K planted cost per acre is only going to be 2-4% by the fourth year. If you have the right clones and great soil and exposure you might bump that up to 5%or even more in later years, but you’re never going to get rich on growing grapes.

]]> http://sonoma.net/blog/dry-creek-valley-land-and-ranches-232.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1840 sonoma county Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:58:40 +0000 http://sonoma.net/blog/?p=232#comment-1840 I wonder , even with the lul in the market, if the price of raw vineyard properties will yield a suitable roi in the 1st decade of production? I wonder , even with the lul in the market, if the price of raw vineyard properties will yield a suitable roi in the 1st decade of production?

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