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California's First 'Wine & Weed Symposium' Arrives in August California has been a powerful force on the global wine scene for decades. Meanwhile, the state's never been a slouch when it comes to high quality cannabis either...

French Wine Firm Henriot Buys Majority Stake in Oregon's Beaux Frères In a dramatic move that marks its first foray into American wine, French company Maisons & Domaines Henriot has acquired a majority ownership stake in Beaux Frères, one of Oregon's most prominent Pinot Noir producers...

North Coast Wine Challenge Top Winners Announced For the first time in its five-year history, the 2017 North Coast Wine Challenge yielded a rosé as its top winner: the Taft Street 2016 Russian River Valley Rosé of Pinot Noir, which received 98 out of 100 points and took home Best of the Best as well as Best of Show Rosé and Best of Sonoma County awards...

April 17, 2017, Petaluma, California  The Petaluma Gap Winegrowers Alliance is proud to announce the creation of their 10-case special lot for the 2017 Sonoma...

Wine Sellers Push to Allow Shipments Across the Border If a New York connoisseur wants a bottle of wine from a Central California or Oregon vineyard, he or she can have it shipped without any trouble. The same wine enthusiast can also order a bottle to be shipped from an in-state retailer...

13,300 Brewing Professionals, Exhibitors Convene in Washington, D.C. for the 2017 Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® Boulder, CO • April 13, 2017—The Brewers Association (BA)—the...

A Foot in Two Industries: How Wine and Weed Cross-Pollinate Cannabis has long been grown in the shadows, under the canopies of the Emerald Triangle, while wine grapes were grown in the neighboring counties of Sonoma and Napa in the open, under the warm California sun...

Cannabis has long been grown in the shadows, under the canopies of the Emerald Triangle, while wine grapes were grown in the neighboring counties of Sonoma and Napa in the open, under the warm California sun. Now, cannabis, a plant whose flowers can be worth as much as gold, is beginning to emerge from those shadows and venture into the mainstream. The same can be said for business professionals who are also emerging from other industries, like wine, to embrace the opportunities that the cannabis industry presents. I spoke to two women who have a foot in both wine and weed, starting their careers in the wine industry, and more recently stepping into the cannabis industry, while still maintaining their work with wine.

A Woman's Death Sorting Grapes Exposes Italy's "Slavery" Her husband can still recall how Paola Clemente used to set two alarms to make sure she woke in the middle of the night - 1:50 a.m. - to catch the private bus that would take her and dozens of other women to the vineyards...

Global Wine Production Falls in 2016 World wine output dropped in 2016, with volumes in France and Argentina seeing the largest declines, an international wine body said Tuesday...

We Know What We Don't Know About Wine's Future According to Lee Hannah and Terra Alpaugh, "Everything You Know About Wine is Wrong." That is the title of their Wine Economics Working Paper #204...

U.S. Producers Betting on Rosé and Challenging French Dominance "Is it on? Yes, it's definitely on. Pink is trending; it's a heavy trending thing, and I don't see it going away at all," says sommelier and author Christopher Sawyer, who recently judged in the Rosé Today Wine Competition...

“Is it on? Yes, it’s definitely on. Pink is trending; it’s a heavy trending thing, and I don’t see it going away at all,”...

Jerez de la Frontera: 12-13 June World-renowned figures such as Josep Roca, Andoni Aduriz, Ricard Camarena or François Chartier will be among the guest speakers...

Francis Ford Coppola Winery Acquires Silverwood Vineyard in Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak Appellation The purchase includes the 13-acre Silverwood Vineyard, an ultra-premium Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec producing vineyard whose fruit has contributed to Coppola's highly-acclaimed flagship Archimedes wine for several vintages...