Arista Winery, Healdsburg, Calif., is closing down production after the 2024 vintage. Mark and Ben McWilliams say they have stopped making new wine and will release the remaining 2024 bottlings while supplies last.

“The industry is shifting,” Mark McWilliams said. He and his brother, co-owner Ben McWilliams, had to make “real family decisions about where we invest our time and money." Faced with flat sales and rising expenses, “we realized that it was probably time for us to exit.”

The brothers have also run a small real estate business, and came to the conclusion there was probably more of a future in that than in wine.