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Afternoon Brief, January 11
The 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Winners: The winners of the 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition (SFCWC) were announced on Friday, after receiving a record 7,162 entries this year the highest number of wine entries to date...
Ask Maverick Enterprises’ Experienced Crew Your Capsule Questions
Maverick will be in booth 1140 at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium with our sales, tech support team and many other manufacturing professionals...
Oak Infusion Spiral Offers Free Samples and Introduces Big Roast Blend
Introducing the new Oak Infusion Spiral Big Roast Blend, a multi-toast American oak through-bung oak alternative that delivers big, dark-toasted oak to robust red...
WineDirect Shows New Features at Unified Including Gliding Eagle, Direct Shipping...
We provide the tools that allow you to easily manage the important aspects of DTC, everything from device to doorstep! We want to share...
Afternoon Brief, January 8
Napa and Sonoma Vintners See a Surge in Vine-Killing Pierce's Disease: Thousands of vines were uprooted in 2015, raising fears that warm weather is allowing the disease to spread...
Afternoon Brief, January 7
Wine Personality and TV Star Leslie Sbrocco Opening Night Keynote Speaker at USbevX: Sbrocco will que up the conference with her renowned panache for fun and engaging facts, addressing an industry manifesting unheralded success fueled by an explosion of new brands, new business models and new producers...
Afternoon Brief, January 6
More Californians Preparing for Severe El Nino Flood Risk: Residents Purchase 28,000 New Flood Insurance Policies in California: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today released new data on National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Policies, showing an increase of more than 20,000 new NFIP Policies written in California during the month of November 2015...
Afternoon Brief, January 5
2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Begins Today: The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition begins today in this northern Sonoma County community, and it continues to break records...
Afternoon Brief, January 4
The Labeling Lies of Expensive Wines: The labels on more affordable wines can be more trustworthy than their pricey counterparts...
El Nino Brings New Concerns to Finger Lakes Vineyards
By Randy Agness
After two consecutive years of record setting cold temperatures and severe frost conditions during bloom, Finger Lakes vineyard managers were hoping for...
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You get a WIN Jobs dollar coupon with a promotional code that allows you to post your wine industry jobs...
Afternoon Brief, December 31
5 Tips for Better Health: New Year's Wine Resolutions: As the time approaches to say good-bye to 2015, you're probably thinking about how to change your lifestyle for a healthier, better you in 2016...
Afternoon Brief, December 30
Eight Ways Wine Will Change in 2016: The impact of climate change and new technologies (like the ability to check wine prices on smartphones) are on my vinous radar for 2016...
Afternoon Brief, December 29
Wine Experts Raise Heat Over Fake Wine Claims: Wine authentication expert Maureen Downey, who was instrumental in bringing down counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan, has spoken out after the chairman of The Wine Institute of Las Vegas sued her for accusing him of selling fake wines, an accusation that he said cost him millions in lost sales...
Afternoon Brief, December 28
Napa, Sonoma Struggle with Winery Events Rules: Napa and Sonoma counties are in the midst of reviewing how they handle rural winery projects amid increasingly vigorous opposition...