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Michael David Winery Acquires Historic Geyserville Winery, Tasting Room, and Vineyards
Michael David Winery announced today the purchase of a historic...
Value Wins at Sonoma Wine Auction
Many people told me this off the record so I'm going to lead with it: the Sonoma County Barrel Auction is more fun than Premiere Napa Valley...
Marijuana Poised to Steal Market Share From Alcohol Industry
A new study from OutCo and Monocle Research shows 51% of millennials in California will replace alcohol with marijuana...
A Foot in Two Industries: How Wine and Weed Cross-Pollinate
Cannabis has long been grown in the shadows, under the canopies of the Emerald Triangle, while wine grapes were grown in the neighboring counties...
A Woman's Death Sorting Grapes Exposes Italy's "Slavery"
Her husband can still recall how Paola Clemente used to set two alarms to make sure she woke in the middle of the night - 1:50 a.m. - to catch...
Global Wine Production Falls in 2016
World wine output dropped in 2016, with volumes in France and Argentina seeing the largest declines, an international wine body said Tuesday...
We Know What We Don't Know About Wine's Future
According to Lee Hannah and Terra Alpaugh, "Everything You Know About Wine is Wrong." That is the title of their Wine Economics Working Paper #204...
Francis Ford Coppola Winery Acquires Silverwood Vineyard in Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak Appellation
The purchase includes the 13-acre Silverwood Vineyard, an ultra-premium Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec...
Wine Executive Charles Banks Pleads Guilty to Fraud
The financial adviser, Terroir founder and Mayacamas co-owner was charged with deceiving former NBA star Tim Duncan...
Gallo Buys Stagecoach Vineyard and its 600 Acres of Napa Valley Hillside Vines
E. & J. Gallo, the world's largest family-owned wine company, continues to see premium wine as the future...
