Amazon Plans New Wine Store: Online giant Amazon's footprint in the wine market is set to grow, with a bricks-and-mortar liquor store planned for San Francisco, boosting the company's existing Prime Now...
Duckhorn Wine CEO: Planning for Luxury Market After Boomers, Coping with New Napa County Regulations: Napa Valley-based Duckhorn Wine Company makes ultrapremium and luxury brands Decoy, Duckhorn, Goldeneye,...
Smart Branding Key to Future Wine Sales: The wine industry has often been among the slowest to react to economic change. As the United States pulls into a decade of recession and recovery, wine executives...
California Gold Goes Global: According to Liv-ex, the wider world is waking up to California ...
Landmark Vineyards and Winery Acquires Russian River Valley’s Hop Kiln Winery: Landmark Vineyards, one of Sonoma's premier producers of luxury chardonnay and pinot noir, announced today its purchase of...
Enhanced El Niño Storm Track Has Finally Emerged; Active Pattern Likely Throughout California Next 2-3 Months: Over the past two weeks, a series of strong and moist storm systems have brought wet and occasionally...
By Randy Agness
The King of Beers, Budweiser, grows its worldwide beverage empire. SABMiller finally accepted a takeover by InBev after the fifth attempt by Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest brewer....
Secret to terroir may lie in bacteria, say scientists: Researchers in the U.S. have published a study suggesting that the characteristics associated with terroir could have more to do with microbes found...
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California No Longer Copying Europe
Californian winemakers may be attempting to emulate the quality of Europe’s great wines, but not the flavours,...
Spadarotto named Coppola successor CEO: Steven Spadarotto moved from the helm of a major Napa Valley winery to became co-CEO of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's resort, dining and most of his wine businesses...
