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Premium Private Label Wines Driving Growth
If your idea of a private label wine is “Two-Buck Chuck” from the supermarket chain Trader...
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Silver Oak Owners Buy Oregon Vineyard from Dick Erath
The family behind Napa Valley’s Silver Oak is the newest landowner in Oregon’s...
The wine industry has traditionally been a male-dominated industry that has followed a patriarchal line from generation to generation. But women have been working in wine throughout history.
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Stagecoach Vineyard Seller Buys Napa Winery
The family who sold the 600-acre Stagecoach Vineyard in Napa Valley to E&J Gallo, a deal that’s...
Packaging has to two purposes, to protect the product and to sell the product. The second part is more elusive, but no less important in a highly competitive market. The suggested retail price of the CK...
El Niño or La Niña: California Unprepared for Both: With El Niño we were told California's drought would be washed away. That didn't happen...
Millennials Weigh In on What Makes Food Brands Authentic: Today Watershed Communications released findings from two national ethnographic studies examining the media habits of millennial food and beverage...
Border Protection Intercepts New Leafhopper in Wine Shipment: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialist working at the Houston Seaport intercepted a "First in the Nation" pest, preventing...
Napa Locals Take Back a Winery: It seems that we are always hearing about small wineries being bought by larger wineries or companies...
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Kroger Drops Plan to Charge Alcohol Suppliers for Shelf Display
Kroger Co. has dropped a controversial plan to charge alcohol suppliers for how it organizes...
Napa Valley Grower Andy Beckstoffer Is Bullish on Hopland, Ukiah Vineyards: Although Andy Beckstoffer has been called the most powerful winegrape grower in Napa, he is more likely to be found wearing cowboy...
There’s a new generation in wine. Fathers and Sons working together is nothing new and certainly not exclusive to the wine industry, but women are increasingly breaking into wine, and some of them come...
Critic 'Champagne Jayne' facing fresh court battle over name: A trademark dispute between France's Champagne trade body and the critic known as 'Champagne Jayne' is set to return to court after the two...
Fire gutted a vineyard barn in southern Napa on Tuesday night, destroying 11 vehicles, Cal Fire reported. The blaze at Hyde Vineyards on Old Sonoma Road destroyed a pickup, two cars, two tractors, one...
Winemaker Without Vines in View as Treasury Emulates Coke:
Many vintners would love to own enough wine country to cover Manhattan twice over. Not Treasury Wine Estates, maker of $850-a-bottle Penfolds...
World Champion San Francisco Giants Take the 2014 World Series, Celebrate With Mumm Napa Sparkling Wine:
The San Francisco Giants have won the 110th World Series and once again have celebrated in the...
