Chemical Giant Stumps Up for Poisoned Vines: German chemical behemoth Bayer is offering to compensate grapegrowers whose crops have been damaged after spraying with one of the company's fungicides...
Truck Spills 8,000 Pounds of Red Wine Grapes Onto Highway 128: A trucker hauling grapes through the Alexander Valley spilled a large load of grapes onto Highway 128 Tuesday morning after apparently taking...
Wine & Spirits Magazine Announces Top 100 Wineries of 2015: Wine & Spirits Magazine has announced the Top 100 Wineries of 2015, producers from around the world that earned the magazines highest ratings...
Lake County Winery and Vineyard Associations Announce Relief Effort: In response to the devastating Valley Fire, three leading organizations that represent wineries and vineyard owners in Lake County have...
Valley Fire Status Report: Impact to Lake County Wine Industry: Many in the Lake County wine industry have been impacted by this disaster, some both personally and professionally...
By Randy Agness
The reliable Finger Lakes Riesling vines remain in abundance for harvest
As Issue 2 of the weekly Veraison to Harvest e-newsletter published by the Cornell Enology Extension program indicates,...
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...
Peter Michael Adds Its Support to Wine Spectator Learning Center at Sonoma State University: The Michael family's $300,000 donation to Sonoma States School of Business and Economics will be used to create...
Researchers Develop a Method to Sniff Out Counterfeit Wine Without Opening the Bottle: How do you know if a wine is authentic without opening the bottle? A team of researchers at U.C. Irvine believes they...
Latest Forecast Suggests 'Godzilla El Niño' May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean...
