Ballot Measure to Protect Napa County’s Forests and Its Water Resources Filed for 2020 General Election: Napa Growers and Vintners for Responsible Agriculture has requested that the Napa Department of...
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Picking Wine Grapes by Machine Means Better Efficiency with No Loss in Quality
The truth of the matter is that Washingtons agricultural industry...
New Company Breaks Barriers to Distribution for Small Producers
Consolidation continues to make distributors bigger and fewer while the number of producers grow with new small producers enter the market....
Huneeus Vintners Buys Napa Valley's St. Clement Vineyards from Treasury Wine Estates: Treasury Wine Estates has sold Napa Valley's St. Clement Vineyards to Napa-based Huneeus Vintners LLC, according to...
Wine auctioneer charged with grand theft:
Joshua Krummenoehl, of Brooklyn, New York, was charged late June with multiple counts of grand theft involving alleged victims from various states, including...
Excessive Drinking Kills 1 in 10 Americans:
If people moderated their alcohol intake and avoided excessive drinking, it would prevent 10 percent of the deaths that occur in this country every year in...
Europeans testing sulphite-free preservation of wine:
Europeans, well-known for their love of wine, are testing a novel preservation method aimed at significantly reducing or even eliminating sulphites,...
In the mid-nineties Lambrusco had become synonymous with Riunite, a cheap, low alcohol sweet wine that sommeliers wouldn’t allow anywhere near their wine lists, but one wine importer, James Koch of JKI,...
