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Kenwood winery wins $1 million loan for upgrades
VJB Vineyards & Cellars, a family-owned winery in Kenwood, received a $1 million Small Business Administration loan that finalized financing for a Tuscan-style tasting room and hospitality center…
On Cloud Wine has alcohol permit revoked
Shreveport, Louisiana Police Department Chief Willie Shaw asked the city council to pull the winery’s alcohol permit in April, several weeks after the owners husband, Billy Gail Keckler, pleaded guilty to…
Chinese wine importers entering ‘the Era of Warring States’
The report says Chinas wine importers are in the middle of a restructuring process, which it likens to the Warring States era of Chinese history; an analogy for many small players competing against each other without a leading brand…
Southern Wine & Spirits of Nevada and Maisons Marques & Domaines USA Win Unprecedented $5.4 Million Judgment Against Gray Marketeers
MM&D and Southern sued gray marketeers Chateau Vegas Wines Inc., a Nevada distributor, and Transat Trade, Inc., a California-based U.S. importer and supplier of wine and spirits. The lawsuit sought damages for sales…
Vino-vation in Lake Erie Wine Country
Chinese winery owner buys majority stake in Saint Emilion’s Chateau Trianon
New Zealand – Hawke’s Bay 2014 wines ‘showing exciting potential’
Sales of sparkling wine and Italian bubbly soar as champagne figures dip
Top 10 Wines in the U.S. Press
Sonoma sets new rules on tasting rooms, wine bars
New Clore center touts Washington wines
Kathie Lee Gifford’s New Wine Sold in Scarsdale, New York
Wine is Good for Your Dental Health
Michael Mondavi to Sell Carneros Winery
Napa Valley Winemaker Scott Harvey Wines Celebrates 10th Year Anniversary with Festivities
Whispering Dove Vineyards Flies again
Construction bad for business – Crooked River Winery
The Rise of Oregon’s Canned Wine Empire
Wahluke Slope – Backbone of Washington Wine Industry
Cheval Blanc Cellar Sale Eclipses Expectations
Jura wine – the grapes that took Manhattan
Devo’s Gerald Casale Tunes Up a New Napa Vineyard
Lodi’s thirty-six % solution, delicious wines from less familiar grapes
Truchard Vineyards began with a slip on a grape
Drones give farmers an eye in the sky to check on crop progress
Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi Sees U.S. Sales Surge 19%
New look has Arrogant Frog leap into vineyard
Lord Ashcroft’s wine-maker upbeat after 2013’s hot summer
Terlato Wines Partners with Heartland Distillers to Launch New Craft Spirits
