31 wineries, vineyards and tasting rooms have closed, are closing or filed for bankruptcy in 2026

31 wineries, vineyards and tasting rooms have closed, are closing or filed for bankruptcy in 2026

The cutbacks reach from the largest winemaker in the country to single tasting rooms. In 2026, E. & J. Gallo closed a winery and cut jobs in Napa Valley and suspended crush in Lodi, Gundlach Bundschu filed for Chapter 11, and small wineries from Connecticut to Wisconsin are closing their doors. We count 31 wine producers so far this year, 16 of them in California.

What is driving it

Sales have been falling for years. Several of the articles behind these records cite Silicon Valley Bank's annual State of the U.S. Wine Industry report, which puts the industry's revenue decline from 2020 to 2025 at 21%, from $94 billion to $74.3 billion, and attributes much of it to older drinkers cutting back while younger ones are slow to take up wine.

The biggest producers are cutting capacity. E. & J. Gallo, the largest winemaker in the U.S., closed its Ranch Winery in St. Helena, CA in April and cut jobs at the Louis M. Martini Winery and Orin Swift tasting room, and it suspended crush at its Turner Road West facility in Lodi, CA. Jackson Family Wines closed its Carneros Hill Winery in Sonoma, CA. Pernod Ricard closed Kenwood Vineyards in Kenwood, CA by March 31, and the property has since been sold and may reopen under a new owner. Foley Family Wines closed Chalone Vineyard in Soledad, CA.

Contracts and debt, lower down. Mission Bell Winery in Madera, CA, open since 1919, was set to close in early 2026 after losing a distributor contract with Gallo, with more than 200 jobs affected. Sran Vineyards, a grower and producer in Kerman, CA, filed for Chapter 11 in February after allegedly defaulting on a business loan; the case was dismissed in March. Gundlach Bundschu, which the Press Democrat calls California's oldest continuously owned family winery, filed for Chapter 11 on September 23 after cutting its workforce from 120 to 63; its Abbot's Passage facility in Glen Ellen, CA closes in early October. McManis Family Vineyards, which is not in the count, is selling 3,500 acres in Sacramento and San Joaquin counties, including its winery facility in Ripon, CA.

And at the smallest wineries, owners are retiring. Hanover Winery in Hamilton, OH, Granite Heights Winery in Opal, VA, Three Oaks Vineyard in Granville, OH, The Winery at Holy Cross Abbey in Cañon City, CO and Crawford Family Wines in Solvang, CA all give retirement as the reason. Walker's Bluff Winery in Carterville, IL blamed rising property taxes.

California

Everywhere else

Bankruptcy filings

The distributors

Wine is also losing its middlemen. Republic National Distributing Company, a wine and spirits distributor, has filed WARN notices in 19 states and the District of Columbia this year; that story is in our RNDC brief and is not counted here.

What we counted, and what we left out

We count wine producers: wineries, vineyards and winery tasting rooms that closed, are closing on a stated date, cut jobs or filed for bankruptcy in 2026. The file holds 34 records for them; we count 31 businesses, because Gallo's three actions are one company and Gundlach Bundschu and its Abbot's Passage facility are another. Distributors, retail wine shops, wine bars, restaurants with "wine" in the name, and breweries, cideries and distilleries are left out, and so are sales of land or facilities that do not close anything. A 2025 closing is not counted even when it was reported this year; a 2025 closing whose owner filed for bankruptcy in 2026 is counted as a 2026 filing. Causes are the ones stated in each business's own coverage. A date or jobs figure is printed only where a source states one.

Updated: September 28, 2026

Changelog: first published with 31 producers, from the 2026-09-26 edition.

Street names are from our records; house numbers are held for subscribers. As of September 28, 2026.