Category: Afternoon Brief

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Opus One Winery Fined for Accidental Grape Waste Discharge Opus One Winery has agreed to pay nearly $12,000 for accidentally dumping an unknown...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: A Pathway to Wholesale Success for the Small Producer “There is an inherent David and Goliath dynamic in three-tier distribution,” says...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: New Machine Uses Gravity to Meet Grape Sorting Challenges Could the French Tribaie be the next big thing for ensuring quality of wine with its unique...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Wine Institute Releases Results of New California Wine Tourism Survey Results of a new online survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults who recently...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Sonoma City Considers Moratorium on New Wine Tasting Rooms Is it possible to have too much wine in Sonoma? On a personal, by-the-glass level, well,...

Wine Maven Kurniawan, Convicted of Fraud, Loses Bid for Freedom The convicted Indonesian wine dealer Rudy Kurniawan on Monday failed to persuade a U.S. judge to set aside his 10-year prison term for counterfeiting...

Cabernet Underpins Double-Digit Sales Growth August data show spike in domestic wine overall and continued expansion of direct shipments...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Charles Banks: From Screaming Eagle to Jailbird With his wine finances finally untangled by the sale of his share of Mayacamas, former winery owner...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Silver Oak Owners Buy Oregon Vineyard from Dick Erath The family behind Napa Valley’s Silver Oak is the newest landowner in Oregon’s...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Napa Supervisors Agree on New Winery Rule-Breaker Policies Napa County supervisors are almost finished sharpening rules to deal with rural winery...