October 29, 2015
French Wine Industry's Love Affair with Pesticides Blamed for Worker Health Problems: Wenny Tari knows a thing or two about wine. She and her husband Gabriel have been making it since 1982, when they inherited...
September 17, 2015
Smaller Producers Enjoy Significant Growth in U.S. Alcoholic Beverage Market: A just-released report analyzing the U.S. market for alcoholic beverages shows a notable lack of growth for the top producers,...
September 14, 2015
Valley Fire Incinerates Lake County’s Shed Horn Cellars: The Valley Fire, which reached 61,000 acres in Napa and Lake counties on Monday morning, has reportedly destroyed Shed Horn Cellars, a winery in...
September 8, 2015
Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction Breaks Records with $4.5 Million Haul: A recreation of the 1915 World's Fair complete with a Model T Ford and a barbershop quartet created a colorful backdrop for a record-breaking...
September 4, 2015
Sonoma County Winegrape Growers Approve Commission Referendum: As it seeks to become the nation's first 100% sustainable winegrowing region, Sonoma County's winegrape growers voted ...
July 2, 2015
Constellation Brands Stock Shoots for the Stars: In case you were wondering, Constellation Brands (STZ) has nothing to do with astronomy, although you may feel like you’re in the night sky after consuming...
June 19, 2015
Water wars in California's coastal wine country: By most measures, California's Central Coast wine industry is thriving. Between 1990 and 2014, harvested wine grape acreage in the growing region around...
June 16, 2015
Online wine sales make up 5% of the market - but are on the rise: Don't wine about it: Online wine sales accounted for a mere five percent of global sales of whites, reds and roses last year - but are...
April 20, 2015
Wine industry should look for opportunity when roadblocks rise: Some of the solutions for today's challenges to California wine industry growth, whether it be regulation, climate or crop disease, can be...
April 9, 2015
Constellation Sees 24% Net Sales Increase: Constellation Brands has reported a 24% increase to net sales in its 2015 end of year results, largely propelled by its Mexican beer business...