March 12, 2018
40 Wines That Changed the Way We Drink
Some wines are good, some are bad, and some are significant. Here are 40 that made a difference...
March 9, 2018
A Veteran Winemaker Throws Out the Wine-Selling Playbook
Adam Lee wants to shake things up. "Selling wine isn't what I like to do," Lee says. He's good at it, of course. Lee is a darling of wine writers...
March 7, 2018
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Regulators Investigate Napa, Sonoma Wineries and Distributors for Illegal Trade Practices
Federal and state agents visited more than 30 wine-related...
March 6, 2018
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Does Napa Need to Choose Between Grapevines and Oak Trees?
Napa Valley is known for both its gorgeous acres of vineyards and its rugged, oak-covered...
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...
March 1, 2018
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Washington State Reports Lighter Wine Grape Harvest, Excellent Quality in 2017
Washington State’s wine grape harvest totaled 227,000 tons...
February 28, 2018
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Napa Expert Grim About the State and Direction of the Valley: ‘I Don’t See Any Hope’
Few people have spent more time thinking and writing...
February 27, 2018
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Paradise Ridge Winery Faces Rebuild Challenges After Santa Rosa Fire
If plans work out, visitors could start returning to Paradise Ridge Winery’s...
February 26, 2018
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Spirits and Bids High at 22nd Annual Premiere Napa Valley
Wine professionals attending today’s sold-out Premiere Napa Valley raised their...
February 23, 2018
Is Napa Running Out of Land for Vineyards?
When Xavier Cervantes was scouting properties in Napa, he looked in all the usual hallowed ground for vineyards: Oakville, Rutherford, Pritchard Hill...
February 22, 2018
Stay or Go?: Dilemma of Winery Founders in Mergers and Acquisitions
Whether a founder or owner of a wine brand stays on after an acquisition can depend on what has been sold...
February 15, 2018
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Barefoot Remains Top Brand: Wine Sales Rise 3%
Barefoot remains the top-selling table wine brand as sales figures for January indicate steady growth...
February 14, 2018
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Silicon Valley Bank Predicts the US Wine Industry Is at the Tail End of a 20-Year Growth Period
Silicon Valley Bank released its State of the Wine...
February 12, 2018
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Napa Grape Prices Up 11.5%
Prices for red wine grapes from California rose 5.1% in 2017, compared to 2016, while white wine varieties dropped 3.6%...
February 8, 2018
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Sonoma, Napa Grape Growers Waiting to See How Vineyards Were Changed by Wine Country Wildfires
As he walks down a row of pruned zinfandel vines,...
February 6, 2018
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Academics Explain Terroir but Not Exactly the Way Wine Consumers Might Expect
It’s the location. It’s the climate. It’s the local...















