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Wine Anarchy on French TV Talk Show
A televised discussion about the Charlie Hebdo attacks risks censure by flouting a French law banning wine on TV…
Whole Foods wine buyer urges Sonoma growers to push sustainability
The top wine buyer for Whole Foods Market on Thursday lauded the effort by Sonoma County growers to make the countys grape crop 100 percent sustainable before the end of the decade, but cautioned it will be a difficult task to get a national standard that will embraced by wine consumers…
Napa, Sonoma wine shipped to consumers up 12%, 14% in 2014
Vintners in Napa and Sonoma counties last year shipped 12.2 percent and 14.4 percent, respectively, more wine directly to consumers, but the average price per shipped Sonoma bottle slipped for a fourth year, even as prices for wines from Napa and elsewhere in the country extended double-digit gains, according to a report released Thursday…
2014 Was the Warmest Year Ever Recorded on Earth
Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped…
Consumer Wine Awards 2015 moving to Sacramento
The Rose Competition Open to All North American Wineries
Wine Crisis Leads to Protests in Argentina
Idaho Wine Industry: No longer small potatoes?
Paso wine country gets drought relief with early storms
Nielsen confirms sparkling wine and major spirits categories as big Christmas winners
Massachusetts’ direct wine shipping law off to robust start
E.U. wine and spirits industry will not be helped by falling oil prices says Moody’s
Grape rotting fruit fly raises alarm in German vineyards
Rain causes powdery mildew in some Canberra wine crops
India: Labourer dies while cleaning wine fermentation tank
Winegrowers Unveil 100 Year Business Plan to Preserve Agriculture in Sonoma County
Report Shows Record-Breaking Year for Direct Wine Shipping
FAA to U.S. Winemakers: Drone On, Ye Makers of Wine
Under the Radar California Wineries
Paris terror attack takes the lives of three of France’s most outrageous wine label designers
Charles Smith drops lawsuit against Gray Report readers
What is Your Brand? The Importance of Branding & Messaging for Small Wine Producers
Santa Rosa Junior College sets first-ever ‘Wine Classic’ Feb. 8
California leads global vineyard price rises
San Francisco Chronicle’s 2015 Wine Competition Winners
Petaluma’s Lagunitas brewery backs away from trademark lawsuit against Sierra Nevada
Three Sticks gets former Williams Selyem winemaker
Sonoma and Napa counties grapple with winery outreach directly to consumers
Unpretentious Millennials Are Changing the Way We Drink Wine, Barefoot’s CMO Says
Do “hand-picked” grapes mean better wine?
