Tag: Champagne
Afternoon Brief, January 16
Sustainable Sonoma Wine Could Fetch $7-a-Bottle More, Survey Says: U.S. wine consumers are willing to pay more for wine - up to several dollars more per bottle - produced using "sustainable" practices, according to new research presented at a Sonoma County grapegrower seminar in Santa Rosa on Thursday...
Afternoon Brief, October 26
Wine Industry Wants Greater Say in Sonoma County Groundwater Regulation: Vintners and wine industry representatives on Tuesday pressed Sonoma County supervisors to give farming interests a greater say in how California's new law governing groundwater is put into place on a local level...
Champagne AR Lenoble and Jordan Winery Announces Partnership
Jordan Cuvée by Champagne AR Lenoble debuts this month, releases spring 2017
HEALDSBURG, Calif. (October 3, 2016)—The finest restaurants in the world welcome guests with...
Afternoon Brief, July 22
The Wine Industry May Not Be at the Conventions, but It's Watching: Presidential candidates used to be able to win their party's nomination by courting bigwigs over drinks at the bar outside the convention hall...
Champagne Charles Heidsieck Releases 2006 Vintage Rosé – First Since 1999
New York, NY, February 10, 2016 - Champagne Charles Heidsieck, one of the most respected and rewarded Champagne houses, based in Reims, France, is...
Afternoon Brief, June 2
Drought Is Bearing Fruit for Washington Wineries: American wine, for all the hype and hyperbole in recent years about Idaho rieslings or Pennsylvania pinot noirs, is still overwhelmingly a California thing...
Afternoon Brief, May 22
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Afternoon Brief, May 21
Sweeping Trade Bill Passes a Key Senate Vote: A flurry of last-minute deal-making on the Senate floor on Thursday rescued President Obama's ambitious trade agenda from defeat, breaking a filibuster to advance legislation that would empower the president to complete a sweeping, 12-nation Pacific trade accord...
Afternoon Brief, May 18
U.S. Wine Industry Facing Steep Tariffs from Canada: Today the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body issued their final ruling against the United States country of origin labeling (COOL) requirements for muscle cuts of meat. What does that mean for the wine industry? If the United States does not repeal its COOL rule, Canada and Mexico will retaliate with substantive tariffs on a variety of American products which could include wine...
Afternoon Brief, May 14
Grape growers harvesting on average eight days earlier each decade: Researchers from the Australian Wine Research Institute are warning grape growers they must adapt to warmer and drier conditions leading to earlier harvests...
Afternoon Brief, April 30
Millions In USDA Export Funds Now Available To Ag/Wine Trade Associations: In Fiscal Year 2015 the USDA's Market Access Program awarded more than $173 million to 62 American agricultural trade associations for export trade activities. This includes the Wine Institute which received more than $7 million...
Afternoon Brief, April 28
Roche chardonnay named 'Best of the Best' at North Coast Wine Challenge: The 24 judges who swirled and sipped through the Press Democrat's 2015 North Coast Wine Challenge in mid-April chose a classic white varietal, Roche 2013 Carneros Chardonnay French Oak Reserve, as its Best of the Best winner...
Afternoon Brief, April 21
Water into wine: How California vintners conserve H20: Local grape growers, especially those with a sustainability focus, haven't just started paying attention to water use, says Steve Sangiacomo, one of three third-generation siblings running Sangiacomo Family Vineyards south of Sonoma...
Afternoon Brief, April 14
North Coast Wine Challenge underway in Santa Rosa: The 2015 Press Democrat North Coast Wine Challenge began Tuesday at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Hotel in Santa Rosa...
Afternoon Brief, March 26
Napa murder-suicide leaves fate of winery, lawsuits in question: Dahl Vineyards is being evicted from its Yountville home, a week after proprietor Robert Dahl shot an investor to death with a silencer-equipped handgun on the grounds and later killed himself as police closed in after a brief car chase...
