Wine Could Escape Dietary Guidelines: The appointment of Robert F Kennedy Jr as health secretary could see dietary guidelines for wine scrapped...
Will the Mendocino Complex Fires Put a Chokehold on Grapes This Harvest?
The Mendocino Complex fires in Lake County created a dense plume of smoke over the Beckstoffer vineyard for several days in early...
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Duckhorn Wine Company Acquires Central Coast Icon Calera Wine Company
Duckhorn Wine Company, which includes Duckhorn Vineyards, Goldeneye, Paraduxx,...
Is the Intelligent Vineyard the Future of Winegrape Growing?: Phil Asmundson is by no means a veteran viticulturist, but a half-dozen years ago, after watching his wife and business partner, Kim, augering...
Vivino Announces Year’s Best Consumer Rated Wines: Vivino, the worlds most downloaded wine app and largest community of wine drinkers, today announced Vivinos 2017 Wine Style Award winners...
On-Premise Beverage Alcohol Consumption Continues to Decline: The on-premise beverage alcohol market was unable to capitalize on an improving economy, as consumption decreased for the third consecutive...
New Outbreaks on North Coast Heighten Need for Continued Vigilance in Controlling Pierce’s Disease: Widespread reports of the largest increase in Pierces disease in Napa and Sonoma counties in at least...
E. & J. Gallo Announces Purchase of Talbott Vineyards: E. & J. Gallo Winery announced today that it has agreed to purchase Talbott Vineyards, one of Californias largest and most esteemed producers...
Australia's wine 'cheaper than a bottle of water': It depends what wine you're looking at and where you get your bottled water, but on some big retailers' shelves in Australia it's not too hard today to...
Bulk wine shipping and New World plantings to slow, says Rabobank: Shipping wine in bulk is set to slow, while New World plantings are also declining that's according to Rabobank's recently published World...
‘The wine world is under attack, and it needs to up its game’, Wine Economist Mike Veseth:
Eminent wine writer and economist Mike Veseth warns that the wine world needs to combat the threat of new age...
TTB Establishes 11 New Viticultural Areas Within the Paso Robles Viticultural Area:
On Thursday, October 9, 2014, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau will publish a final rule in Federal Register...
Professor Claims Terroir is ‘A Myth’:
The quality of some of the worlds top wines is down to a concentration of expertise rather than terroir, a French professor has argued...
Grape harvest begins early in Temecula Wine Country:
Experiencing the grape harvest in the local vineyards has rarely been on a July to-do list but thats just what is happening now in the vineyards of...
Economics driving California wineries to Pacific NorthWest:
Speculation creeps into the conversation every time a large California winery snaps up a smaller operation and sets up shop in Oregon or Washington:...
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Paso Robles CAB Collective Announces 2014 Panelists and Moderator
The Paso Robles CAB (Cabernet and Bordeaux) Collective (PRCC) will present a star-studded...
