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October 1, 2020
Grape and Bulk Market Activity Increases as Wineries Seek Ways to Supplement a Smaller, Smoke Plagued Vintage: The Lightning Complex, or LMU fire, came earlier this year than Sonoma and Napa had experienced...
September 30, 2020
Vineyards Help Protect Wine Country During Glass Fire: Napa County has been hit hard by wildfires but experts say the damage could have been worse. Wine country’s most precious crop may have prevented...
September 29, 2020
Meadowood Resort, Newton, Burgess and Behrens Among Napa Wildfire’s Many Victims: The Glass Incident fires have consumed more than 42,500 acres, with historic wineries and vineyards in their paths...
September 28, 2020
California's Historic 41-Year-Old Napa Valley Winery 'Consumed' by Glass Fire: The Glass Fire in California has burned the Chateau Boswell Winery in St. Helena, which dates back to 1979 and is among a...
September 25, 2020
Winemakers Face Up to Smoke Taint Reality: West Coast wineries are having to make hard decisions about how to deal with the tumultuous 2020 vintage...
September 24, 2020
California Regulators Identify Violations After Rodney Strong Wine Spill, but No Fine Yet: One of the largest wine spills in Sonoma County history this year violated federal and state clean water laws,...
September 23, 2020
Crisis in Wine Country: 2020 is shaping up to be the worst year for American wineries since Prohibition...
September 22, 2020
'Wet Ashtray' Wine Grapes Left to Birds as Fires Choke West Coast Vineyards: Heavy ground smoke clouded Hanson Vineyards in Oregon’s picturesque Willamette Valley for more than a week following a Labor...
September 21, 2020
Wine Industry Affected by Wildfires Seeks Extension of Disaster Payment Program: With growers and winemakers facing unprecedented losses from the devastating West Coast wildfires, leaders of 10 wine industry...
September 18, 2020
Fires Leave 2020 Vintage in the Balance: Fire and pestilence mark it as the vintage from hell; will any wine be made this year?...