Tag: British Columbia
Afternoon Brief, August 9
Williams Selyem Acquires 121 Year-Old Russian River Valley Zinfandel Vineyard: Williams Selyem Winery, a producer of iconic Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Zinfandel for 35 years, announced today it has purchased the historic Saitone Vineyard located on Olivet Road in Sonoma County's Russian River Valley...
Afternoon Brief, August 1
Unfair Competition in the Wine Industry: California counties are increasingly using California's Unfair Competition Law to bring government enforcement actions against local businesses for myriad reasons...
Afternoon Brief, July 29
Innovative Wine Industry Veteran Phil Hurst Announces Changes at Truett-Hurst, Inc.: Phil Hurst, Co-Founder and President and CEO of Truett-Hurst, Inc., announced today that the VML tasting room and ultra-premium production facility located on Westside Road has been sold by Bill Hambrecht...
Afternoon Brief, July 14
National Storage Tank CEO Envisions Wine Industry “Hub of Suppliers” for Sonoma County: When most people enthuse about a passion for wine, images of sparkling beverages in a glass or acres of vineyards covering a rolling hillside come to mind - not an industrial site filled with all shapes and sizes of polyethylene and steel core tanks...
Afternoon Brief, June 28
New Groundwater Found Deep Under Central Valley: The Central Valley is home to California's productive farming belt, but the regions groundwater is so severely overdrafted in some places that the land has been sinking...
Afternoon Brief, May 31
Wineries Sold! The Trickle Down Effect: There have been some dramatic acquisitions in the wine business the past several months. Most recently, Jackson Family Wines purchased Copain winery, a highly regarded boutique Sonoma County producer of syrah, pinot noir and chardonnay...
Afternoon Brief, April 5
French Winemakers Hijack Spanish Wine Tankers on Motorway: French winemakers have sent tens of thousands of litres of Spanish wine gushing onto the motorway in southern France, in protest at mass produced foreign wine entering the country...
Afternoon Brief, February 25
California Wine Exports Set Record in 2015: U.S. wine exports, 90% from California, reached $1.61 billion in winery revenues in 2015, an all-time record and a 7.6% increase from 2014. Volume was up 4.1% from the previous year to 461 million liters or 51.2 million cases...
Afternoon Brief, January 19
Premiere Napa Valley Auction Goes Online: Twenty-five lots at this year's Premiere Napa Valley barrel tasting and futures auction will be offered online for the first time, boosting the chances of another record sale...
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 22
Meteorologist Predicts Variation on El Nino Pattern: A Wet Pacific Northwest Winter: An Eastern Washington University meteorologist says he has a different take on what El Nino will do this winter in the Northwest...
Afternoon Brief, December 1
Truett-Hurst Sues Landlord in Winery Lease Dispute: Publicly owned startup vintner Truett-Hurst has taken the owner of its Russian River Valley winery and tasting room to court, claiming the action is necessary to prevent eviction ahead of what the wine company speculates could be a move to position the property for sale...
The British Columbia Wine Institute Announces Newsroom on Newsline360 Platform
Journalists and Customers Connect and Receive News in Real Time
December 1, 2015 - British Columbia, Canada - The British Columbia Wine Institute (BC Wine...
Afternoon Brief, November 30
Regular US Wine Drinkers to Reach Over 100m by 2025: 'Next-Gen' consumers are set to swell the number of regular wine drinkers in the US to well over 100m over the next decade, according to a new report...
Afternoon Brief, November 23
U.S. Marshals to Sell Thousands of Bottles of Wine from Rudy Kurniawan Case: The U.S. Marshals will auction approximately 4,711 bottles of wine, deemed authentic, that belonged to Rudy Kurniawan, the man convicted of fraud in federal court in 2013 for producing and selling millions of dollars of counterfeit wine...
