November 6, 2018
Jim Bernau Responds to Copper Cane's Joe Wagner: The article regarding Oregon Vintners Pushing Back on Copper Cane's Labels generated a lot of interest, as did last week's Joe Wagner Responds: Copper Cane...
November 2, 2018
Napa County Formulating New Rules for Winery Rule-Breakers: Once again, Napa County is poised to further deal with wineries that make too much wine, have too many visitors or otherwise break rules set...
October 31, 2018
Legal Strategies for Grape Growers When Wineries Talk 'Smoke Taint' After Wildfires: Following on last year's Northern California firestorm in Napa, Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino, Butte and Solano counties,...
Grape Shortage Exacerbated as Growing Demand Collides with Bad Weather and Pests in the Mid-Atlantic
August 29, 2018
Kevin Atticks, the longtime executive director of the Maryland Wineries Association, has seen a rapid growth of wineries in his state and others around it the last 10 years. It’s a business model that...
August 6, 2018
French Wine Scientists Create 'Supergrapes' That Do Not Require Pesticides
French wine scientists have come up with four revolutionary supergrape varieties they say are impervious to rot and thus require...
May 17, 2018
How long has Jerry Forest been in the wine business? So long, in fact, that he can remember when his three wines were called Red, White and Rosé. So long, indeed, that there were only a handful of wineries...
March 27, 2018
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TTB Targets Consignment Wine Sales
The United States’ three-tier system – which was put in place upon the repeal of Prohibition in 1933...
March 5, 2018
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Two ‘Second Acts’ in the Napa Valley Wine Industry: The Araujo and Krupp Families
Napa Valley has changed. Just ask the Araujos and...
August 1, 2017
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Consumers Short-Changed Again on Shipping
Bad news for wine lovers, and Wine-Searcher users, in most of the United States: your ability to order...
July 31, 2017
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California Flip Flops on Wine Delivery Law
Wine delivery apps have become big business as the delivery market has been transformed by technology...