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California has given away rights to far more water than it has
California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has, making it hard for regulators to tell whose supplies should be cut during a drought, University of California researchers reported…
Heating Up The Vineyard Creates Sustainable Results
Everyone in the business of growing crops understands the importance of adequate climatic heat to bring plants out of dormancy, into and through production…
Are direct-to-consumer sales really failing to lift the wine industry?
As a winery whose business model works only because of direct sales, I was curious to learn more about what the author Brian Rosen, consultant and former proprietor of Sam’s Wine & Spirits, meant by the headline…
Sonoma State Offers Newly Restructured Wine Business Management Online Certificate
Sonoma State Universitys Wine Business Institute began offering its fully online Wine Business Management certificate in 2012. A first of its kind the certificate is the Institutes most comprehensive professional development offering…
2014 Washington wine grape harvest begins
Indiana Now Requires Encrypted File Transfer for Alcohol Reports
Wine-by-the-glass taps new profits
‘As with Champagne, product protection is vital’: Prosecco DOC Consortium
California voters to decide fate of water bond this November
Lake County wineries pour on Vallejo welcome
New York wineries can import grapes to bolster harvest
New York State Assists Grape Growers Hit By Harsh Winter
Washington Wine Auction Sees Gains and Faces Challenges
‘Normal’ vintage kicks off in Spain as government moves to curb last year’s excess
The art of grafting grapevines: What to do and how to do it
Julie Ann Kodmur and Tom Wark, Pouring 50 years of wine PR experience into one blog
Long Island wine mogul Dr. Herodotus Damianos, founder of Pindar, dies at 83
Chile’s Winemakers ‘Erasing’ Terroir
The Other Guys Names Andres Faustinelli Director of Procurement
Benovia Winery Welcomes Jeff Shaeffer as Direct Sales Manager
Q&A – Amy Corron Power and Joe Power, Another Wine Blog
Champagne Loses One of its Biggest Names
TEXSOM – The Best Food and Wine Event in the Country-Names Best Sommelier in Texas
Four Brothers, one winery: The Buoncristianis work together in happy harmony
Wine Detective Michael Egan, Meet the go-to expert for exposing fake vintages
Q&A – Rodrigo Soto, Winemaker for Huneeus
Niner Wine Estates names associate winemaker
The Terroirist Manifesto of Anselme Semosse
Vintage International Ltd director banned for wine investment scam
