Tag: Mexico
Afternoon Brief, January 29
Wine Enthusiasts Wine Star Awards celebrated its 20th anniversary Monday night at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. With nearly 1,000 industry luminaries in attendance, the ceremony began with a cocktail reception flanked by a hall of fame and star walk ...
Afternoon Brief, September 13
Napa County, Bremer Family Winery Reach Lawsuit Settlement - Napa County and Bremer Family Winery settled a lawsuit brought by the county against the winery over alleged permit and code violations, ending a dispute that called into question how the county interprets older use permits ...
Afternoon Brief, February 19
Excess California Coastal Wine, Grapes Open New-Brand Opportunities, Heighten Marketing Expense: How big the 2018 North Coast wine grape harvest now won't be known for a couple more months, but it's become increasingly clear that banking the emerging wine business cycle will take different or revived tactics after years of steady consumer sales growth...
Afternoon Brief, November 19
Harvard Spent $100 Million on Vineyards. Now It's Fighting with the Neighbors: Four years ago, Harvard University bought an old cattle ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. On an arid expanse north of Santa Barbara, California, the schools endowment set out to make money from a notoriously tricky business: vineyards ...
Afternoon Brief, October 9
'Smoke Taint' Worries Rile Northern California Growers as Wine Grapes Rejected After Summer Wildfires: Major Lake County wine grape grower and vintner Clay Shannon plans to crush about 6,000 tons of grapes this year, enough to make about 360,000 standard 12-bottle cases of wine ...
Afternoon Brief, August 27
Expanded 2018 WIN Expo Conference Stacked with Wine Business Experts: The 7th annual North Coast Wine Industry Expo (WIN Expo), the second largest wine industry trade show in North America, has bolstered the conference portion of its program this year to address the increasing complexity of issues facing the wine industry...
Afternoon Brief, August 15
Searching for the Truth About Smoke Taint: With wildfires still blazing, Tom Jarvis tells you all you need to know about the effect on grapes...
Afternoon Brief, May 2
From Petaluma Gap to the Sonoma Valley, Wine Appellations Baffle Some
Wine shoppers looking for a wine to have with dinner face an often bewildering array of label information. There is the winery name, varietal, alcohol content and then there are the place names, known on American wines as American Viticultural Areas or AVAs...
Afternoon Brief, April 2
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Big Alcohol Behind Major Health Study
A decade-long study into the health effects of drinking is expected to...
Afternoon Brief, January 23
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Premier Cru Victims Stung Again
The Berkeley store's sorry saga of sex, lies and regret has another instalment,...
Afternoon Brief, November 13
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Wine Spectator to Unveil Top 100 Wines of 2017
After tasting more than 16,000 wines from vineyards around...
Afternoon Brief, August 10
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Alcoholism Epidemic: More Than 1 in 8 Americans Are Now Alcoholics
Americans are becoming increasingly heavy drinkers, with...
Afternoon Brief, July 17
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Wine Country Vintners Curious, but Wary of Cannabis Industry
When Tom Rodrigues looks out the window at his...
Afternoon Brief, May 31
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WineAmerica and Wine Industry Network Join Forces
Wine Industry Network and WineAmerica today announced that WineAmerica, the National...
Afternoon Brief, April 25
Sex, Love and the $1000 Breakfast Wine
I had a $1000 bottle of wine for breakfast. I'm going to tell you all about the wine: how it was made, what it tastes like, and why it worries me about Napa Valley's most iconic wine...