October 18, 2018
Constellation Brands Names Bill Newlands Next CEO: Constellation Brands, Inc., a leading beverage alcohol company, today announced Bill Newlands will assume the role of president and chief executive officer...
October 17, 2018
Big Wine Brands' Bizarre Beginnings: Wine is weird. After grapes are plucked from vines, cleaned and crushed (or not), they're ready for fermentation. Eukaryotic microorganisms go in, consume sugar, and...
October 12, 2018
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Somm Struck Off over Tasting Leak
The man responsible for the cancellation and rescheduling of the Master Sommelier tasting test has still not been...
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...
July 18, 2018
Napa County Handling of Williamson Act Agricultural Land Contracts Draws Grand Jury Scrutiny
Napa County's grand jury says a decades-old program giving property tax breaks to agriculture land owners suffers...
July 5, 2018
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Canada’s Wine Sector to Benefit from Over $9M in Investment
The Canadian Grapevine Certification Network will receive investment of CAD 12.1 million...
June 21, 2018
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Is Originality Overpriced When It Comes to Wine?
Replica Wine, a Colorado company, is reverse-engineering famous wines to produce less expensive...
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...
April 12, 2018
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California Cabernet Too Hot to Handle
It’s slowly dawning on winemakers that certain popular grape varieties are not best suited to the Californian...
January 25, 2018
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2017 Wine Auction Totals Exceed $371 Million
The growing U.S. economy and a surging stock market that seems to be setting new highs every week are...









