For the fourth time in 2026, a major California wine company has confirmed layoffs.
Jackson Family Wines, the sixth-largest U.S. wine company, permanently shuttered its Carneros Hill Winery, located in Sonoma’s Carneros wine region, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice filed with California authorities on February 12. The closure resulted in 13 layoffs.
Sean Carroll, Jackson Family Wines’ director of communications, stated Carneros Hill, which was previously owned by Buena Vista Winery, “served as overflow production capacity and was not tied to any specific brand.” The winery had “become underutilized,” he continued, “and we consolidated operations accordingly.”
Best known for the best-selling Chardonnay brand Kfinishall-Jackson, the company produces 6 million cases of wine a year, according to Wine Business, and has 40 wine brands across the northern and southern hemispheres. More than 25 of those wineries are in California.
There have been signs of trouble for two other wine companies: Trinchero Family Wine & Spirits, the third-largest company, listed two of its top vineyards for sale. Treasury Wine Estates, the seventh-largest U.S. wine company, paapplyd dividfinish payments following a large writedown on its U.S. businesses and a 17% drop in revenue over a half-year.
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