September 15, 2026 (Seattle, WA) — Legendary winemaker Charles Smith of House of Smith today announces the newest release under his CasaSmith label: 2024 LINCE Pinot Grigio, a vibrant, single‑vineyard...
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June 30, 2026 (Seattle, WA) — Visionary winemaker Charles Smith, today announced REAL WINE COLLECTIVE, a collaboration with Evergreen Family Wines and...
Washington State’s largest winemaker owned winery offers complimentary flights at tasting rooms in Seattle and Walla Walla
February 12, 2026 (Seattle, WA) — House of Smith, the trailblazing...
Sonoma County Harvest Fair Announces Best of Class and Gold Medal Winners: The Sonoma County Harvest Fair, now in it’s 50th year, has released the results of its annual professional wine competition.....
Pasqua Wines Becomes Minority Partner in ‘Real Wine’,Ushering in a New Era for Two Forward-Thinking Brands
July 8, 2025 (Verona, Italy) — In a milestone centennial year, iconic Italian winery Pasqua...
How Wine World Has Changed Since Poor 2017 Global Harvest : 2017 was a long, protracted nightmare for so much of the world of wine. Circumstances came together so that both the northern and southern hemispheres...
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Robust Sales for Premium, Small-Production Wines
While sales of domestic wines were flat in February at $2.8 billion, a deeper dive into the data...
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Some U.S. States Are Cracking Down on Interstate Direct-To-Consumer Wine Shipping
According to ShipCompliant by Sovos, at over $2 billion in 2016...
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Napa Wine Merchant Accused of Fraud in Client’s Lawsuit
Bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach has filed suit against Soutirage for $1 million, accusing...
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Investigation Continues into Large Mount Veeder Winery Wastewater Spill
State investigators are still looking for the cause of a Mount Veeder winery...
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“Is it on? Yes, it’s definitely on. Pink is trending; it’s a heavy trending thing, and I don’t see it going away at all,” says sommelier and author Christopher Sawyer, who recently judged...
Bordeaux Court Deliberates on Fraud Case Involving More Than 1 Million Bottles of Wine: A Bordeaux judicial tribunal is weighing the fates of eight men accused of trying to pass off more than 1 million...
Kansas Authorities Arrest Man for Fraud After Thousands of Dollars Worth of Napa Wine Disappears: Three Napa wineries may finally get some of their gold-medal winning wine worth tens of thousands of dollars...
Napa Winery Tied to Dahl Murder-Suicide Tragedy Seeks Rebirth: A winery property is being reborn after hitting a tragic snag when former tenant Robert Dahl was involved in a 2015 murder-suicide case that...
Charles Smith Reshapes Washington Wine Industry: When Charles Smith makes a move, the earth moves. On Monday, a big "crack" was heard throughout the Washington wine industry when it was announced that...
Constellation Buys Five of Charles Smith's Washington Wine Brands for $120 Million: Constellation Brands added to its burgeoning collection of premium wine brands, announcing this morning an agreement...
