Pending Legislation Threatens to Close as Many as 25 Maryland Wineries: The Maryland Wineries Association has been scrambling for the past couple weeks to have a proposed bill rewritten to prevent as many...
We asked a few sparkling winemakers to share their wine recommendations for celebrating the new year, one of their own wines, and one from another winery that they enjoy. We hope you’ll find something...
This Algorithm’s Taste in Wine Is Better Than Yours: So, you want to buy a bottle of wine. You sort of know what you like-bold reds, crisp whites-but not much more than the names of a few grapes...
Study Finds Red Wines Gets Higher Scores for No Apparent Reason: Do experts rate red wines more highly than white wines, regardless of price, vintage, and region? Does this mean there is a critical bias...
Sonoma County Grower Credits Great Growing-Season Weather for a Great 2016 Wine Grape Crop: By the end of the first week of October, the 2016 harvest was all but over for veteran Sonoma County wine grape...
Vintage Wine Estates Purchases Napa Valley’s Delectus Winery: Vintage Wine Estates announced today the purchase of DELECTUS Winery, a producer of high-scoring, luxury appellation red wines...
Jackson Family Wines Purchases Alexander Valley’s Field Stone Winery: Best known for its old-vine Petite Sirah, the Field Stone vineyard was first planted in 1894...
Coppola Sues Winemaker Over Rip-Off Label: Francis Ford Coppola is suing an Oregon-based wine producer claiming that its Copa Di Vino Winemakers Cut infringes upon the trademark for his own Directors Cut...
Wine in Kegs: This Time, Are They Here to Stay?
: Wine in kegs is an ancient concept that has been ongoing in many parts of Europe...
California Crop Forecast: 4 Million Tons: Speaking at the 64th annual meeting of the Allied Grape Growers last week, Nat DiBuduo told the audience that the 2016 crop "seems to be getting smaller"...
End Is Near for European Grapevine Moth: The European Grapevine Moth is on the ropes. A successful collaboration between the wine grape industry, county, state and federal agricultural departments, and...
Predators on Patrol in Napa Valley Vineyards: Jane Anson reports on the war being waged between Napa Valley winemakers and vineyard pests...
Truett-Hurst Reports Sales Increase, but Trouble for New Wine Spritzer Brand: Truett-Hurst Inc. announced Thursday that it is killing off its highly touted wine spritzer brand sold exclusively in Kroger...
Beer and Cider Marketers Understand Consumers Better Than Their Wine Counterparts: It was in the early ‘90s that the wine industry was falling all over itself in the horrified belief that it was going...
By Elizabeth Hans McCrone
Ray Johnson accepts a 2014 WINnovation Award on behalf of the Sonoma State Wine Business Institute
“Wine education won’t necessarily sell wine, but it gives you a reference to...
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Congress Moves to Protect U.S. Wines from Canadian Tariffs
Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX), Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, has introduced bipartisan...
