Anderson Valley Winegrowers Association Thanks Firefighters for Quick Action Taken in Extinguishing the Grange Fire: In the late afternoon yesterday, a fire broke out on Route 128, near the Philo Grange Hall, a community gathering building. Route 128 is the main highway traversing the Valley from CA 101 to the Pacific Coast. It appears a tourist pulling a boat left chains dragging on the road and sparks ignited on both sides of the two lane road...

Congress Questions Origins of Alcohol Panel: Why are openly anti-alcohol activists being allowed to influence US alcohol policy? We're not the only ones asking...

Large California Wine Producer Files for Bankruptcy, to Sell Assets: Vintage Wine Estates (VWE.O), one of the largest U.S. wine producers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, citing overexpansion, too much debt and a surplus of grapes as wine drinkers emerging from pandemic lockdowns drank less...

Is It Possible to Create Effective Age Restrictions for Alcohol Marketing Online? - The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) has teamed up with Google, Meta, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok and X to strengthen standards for advertising alcohol responsibly online. But with social media often dubbed the ‘internet wild west’, how can the giants ensure these measures are effective?

What's Driving Wine's Structural Decline: Wine consumption has been in decline in its traditional continental European markets for decades, and for many years that volume decline was offset by growth in markets such as UK, USA, northern Europe, and APAC markets such as Japan, China and Australia...

Mixed Messages in Winery Sales: If you want some good news about the wine industry, and I know you do, it is that five months after buying one of Australia’s largest wine companies, Bain Capital is still willing to buy more big brands…

The number of new, imported wines available on the US market continues to grow while the distributor tier proceeds to shrink thanks to acquisitions and smaller wholesalers going out of business...

Pernod Sells Wine Portfolio to Accolade: Pernod Ricard has sold its international wine brands to Australian Wine Holdco Limited (AWL), a consortium of institutional investors and owner of Accolade Wines...

TUESDAY, JULY 16 TRENDING STORY   Sonoma's Carlisle Winery Calls it Quits The owners of Carlisle, California’s leading producer of quality Zinfandels, will call it quits after the 2024 vintage, Wine Spectator has learned. Co-founders Mike and Kendall...

As Consumer Demands Change, Wineries Are Offering More from the Tasting Room Experience: There's rapid evolution happening in the wine tourism industry, as the experience and expectations of wine drinkers have changed...

$1.2 Million Spent on Controversial Wine Subsidy Program from January to March: After months of silence, the Nova Scotia government finally revealed the total figure spent on a wine subsidy program that caused many of the province's winemakers to feel sour...

THURSDAY, JULY 11 TRENDING STORY   California Faces the Grape Apocalypse California grapegrowers are facing an existential crisis this year, as the wine sales malaise extends for another summer...   FEATURED ARTICLE   Get in the Game: Partnerships for Mid-Size Brands in...

Finally, Some Good News About Smoke Taint: Smoke taint is a scourge that can ruin a harvest. But as Jeff Siegel discovers, research has unlocked some answers...

End of Chevron Deference Could Cause Wine Chaos: "Clean wine" could be back on wine labels. Distributors could withhold payment longer from importers and wineries. Breweries could overturn "tied house" laws so they could own and operate pubs...

California Vineyard Touts Propane Amid Bans: Environmental and health advocacy groups have launched a vigorous campaign against the use of natural gas in recent years, arguing it contributes to climate change...