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In the 2023 edition of the Decanter World Wine Awards, the largest and most influential wine competition in the world, the Marne 180 Amarone...

After the Fires: Four Iconic Napa Wineries Share Their Recovery Stories: Fire happens quickly, but the recovery can take years. Decanter checks in on four iconic producers in Napa who are rebuilding with an eye towards the future...

What the Sale of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Means for Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Northwest Wine: Yesterday Ste. Michelle Wine Estates (SMWE) and Italian producer Marchesi Antinori announced that the latter purchased full ownership of Napa Valley’s Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars...

Big Duckhorn Winery Growth Plans Win Napa County Approval: Duckhorn Vineyards winery near St. Helena has secured Napa County approvals to construct more buildings, make more wine and host more guests...

Electronic Nose Determines the Quality of Wine: An electronic nose consists of some sensors, a signal processing system and an analysis system. "The e-nose can identify substances using a method similar to the human sense of smell..."

May 2nd - Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) has announced another record-breaking year for the prestigious awards, which are recognised as...

Vintage Point LLC Files Lawsuit Against Bacchus Capital Management Over Bill: A wine broker has filed a lawsuit against a wine company over a bill exceeding $157,000, according to court records...

Storms Are Another Disaster for Sonoma County Farmworkers Who Call for More Aid: Because of the work interruptions caused by the January storms, hundreds of farmworkers have turned to local nonprofit organizations and now the county for emergency financial aid and support...

Illegal Alcohol Shipping Has Become a Serious Problem: Illegal alcohol shipping in the U.S. has grown into a significant and dangerous problem. Ecommerce exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing people to easily buy alcohol online from numerous platforms...

California Wines Pour Jobs and Dollars into Economy: The California wine and winegrape sector and allied businesses deliver a total economic contribution of $73 billion annually to the state’s economy and $170.5 billion annually to the U.S. economy, according to a new report commissioned by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG)...

Red Wine Quality, Composition Studied at WSU: Research can help winemakers create good products regardless of circumstances beyond their control...

By Carl Giavanti Clive Pursehouse is the U.S. editor for Decanter, with added regional responsibility for both Oregon and Washington states. After relocating to the...

Southern Oregon is known for it’s abundance of wineries. But smoke from wildfires in recent years has sometimes affected the taste of the wine. Smoke damage from wildfires are costing wineries billions of dollars across the west coast...

Exchange Rates Unlikely to Impact Wine Prices: As the value of the Euro, relative to the dollar, dropped to historic lows, wine industry executives have started to wonder if this decrease will help mitigate some of the other rising costs of importing wine. This is the first time in two decades that the dollar has basically hit value parity with the Euro...

Foley Family Wines Buys Napa’s Silverado Vineyards: Vintner, finance executive and hockey team owner Bill Foley secures 300 acres of Napa vines with latest deal expanding his winery holdings...