2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Begins Today: The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition begins today in this northern Sonoma County community, and it continues to break records...
Garagiste Movement Gains Momentum: When the Garagiste Festival launched in 2011 in Paso Robles, few people were familiar with the word garagiste, an esoteric term for a small group of French renegade winemakers...
Treasury Wine Shares Climb to Record After Deal to Buy Diageo U.S., British Assets: Shares in Australia's Treasury Wine Estates Ltd jumped to a record on Monday as investors cheered its $552 million purchase...
Sonoma County Harvest Fair's Sweepstakes Wine Winners Revealed: A sauvignon blanc, a pinot noir and a late harvest semillon won the coveted sweepstakes awards Sunday at the Sonoma County Harvest Awards...
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...
Beverage Diversification Key to Success in Competitive Marketplace: There's little doubt that the alcohol beverage industry is shifting. Consider this... tasting room menus in upstate New York are as likely...
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...
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...
Lake Chelan Wildfire Destroys Winery: A wildfire has destroyed one winery and caused many of the regions winemakers and grape growers to evacuate...
Survey results released by Sonoma State’s Wine Business Institute last week ran contrary to the impression given by several recent stories about the wine industry clashing with locals about vineyard and...
Willamette Valley Vineyards Files Lawsuit Over Pinot Noir Killed by Drifting Pesticides: Oregon winery Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVV) has filed a lawsuit seeking damages for the loss of nearly 13 tons...
Riedel Legal Threat to Hosemaster No Laughing Matter: Feeling safely protected by US libel law, Ron Washam has insulted people in the wine industry for years on his Hosemaster of Wine blog
Red Wine Could Slow Brain Ageing by 7.5 Years: The study, carried out by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and funded by The National Institute of Aging, evaluated cognitive change...
California Wildfires Threaten to Make Local Wine 'Unpalatable': There are fears in California’s wine industry over the possible impact of raging wildfires and whether they could damage this year’s grape...
Lake County fire grows to 15,000 acres: A wildfire in Lake County ballooned Friday to 18,000 acres and spread into neighboring Yolo County, as firefighters struggled to gain the upper hand from the ground...
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...
