Afternoon Brief

Trending Story: Inaugural Craft Beverage Expo to Address “Craft as Community” in Opening General Session Producers of Craft Beverage Expo, the highly anticipated trade show and...

Trending Story: California drought: Why farmers are 'exporting water' to China During California's worst drought on record, some farmers are using precious water to grow hay...

  Trending Story: Robert Parker: ‘Natural’ Wine Will Be Exposed As ‘Fraud’ US wine critic Robert Parker has released his predictions for 2014 including natural...

Trending Story: Endangered Species Act: ‘Biggest threat to the Central Valley of California’ The drought of 2014 will affect more than farmers in California's Central Valley;...

Trending Story: Convict-Made Wine To Hit New York City Restaurants Bottles of wine made by convicted murderers are to go on sale at some of New...

Trending Story: US Labels Leading Non-European Fine Wines Earlier this week (10 February) the first analysis of Liv-exs new multi-region index showed that Italian wines, particularly Gaja, were bucking...

Trending Story: Treasury Wine could deliver $2bn through US division sale: Merrill Lynch Treasury Wine Estates is under renewed pressure to sell its troubled US division...

  Trending Story: California, 15 other states hit export records in 2013 California and 15 other states set new records for export sales in 2013...

Trending Story: Second Consecutive Record Winegrape Harvest, Experts Explain Market Impacts The California Department of Food and Agricultures Preliminary Grape Crush Report for 2013 has been released. ...

Trending Story: Back to Back Record Harvests for California Winegrapes The Preliminary California Grape Crush Report released today shows that we have hit another record harvest in...

Trending Story: 5 Unified Exhibitors You Should Have Visited Randox offered an excellent opportunity for wineries looking to expand their wine analysis capacity. They brought in their...

Trending Story: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie plan 'Super Provence' red wine with Perrin family Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their winemaking partner, the Perrin family, are...

Trending Story: California's drought could raise foreign wine imports to the US and bulk wine prices With California in the midst of one the most severe...

Trending Story: Wineries Report Increased Use of Social Media to Enhance Direct to Consumer Sales More than 60% of wineries and wine-related businesses say they plan...

Trending Story: French Lessons in Napa Recent cooler vintages in Napa have encouraged producers to look for restraint in their wines. But how much is the...