September 3, 2026 — Niner Wine Estates of Paso Robles, California, will begin a new distribution partnership with Vintage Imports of Bristol, Pennsylvania, on September 1, 2026. The partnership will...
US Anti-Alcohol Panel Deplatformed: The neo-Prohibitionist movement suffers a major blow over dietary guidelines for alcohol...
Temecula's Wine Country Hits Baby Boomer Skid as More Vineyard Owners Opt to Sell: After half-a-century, there are a record number of properties up for sale in Temecula Valley Wine Country. The 93 combined...
The fog along the California coast is alive — it flows from the Pacific Ocean up through passes in the protective coastal ranges and into the valleys like a tide. It rises into the hills and breathes before...
Berkeley Man Who Destroyed $250 Million of Wine in Fire Dies: Mark Anderson who embezzled thousands of bottles of wine from his clients and set fire to a warehouse in 2005, destroying 4.5 million bottles...
Coalition Sues to Force Treasury Department Decision on Alcohol Labeling: A coalition of consumer groups sued the Treasury Department today to compel a decision on mandatory alcohol content, calorie, ingredient,...
May 20th – SAN FRANCISCO – With summer just around the corner, there’s no better time to get outside—and no better place to do it than California wine country. The summer season in the Golden State’s...
Over the holidays, I stopped to taste the extraordinary array of wines at Castoro Cellars in Paso Robles and almost tripped over the SIP certified sign at the entrance. This winery is proud of their role...
Series of Atmospheric River Storms to Bring Risk of Significant California Flooding: The Pacific Northwest has been shivering through another unusually extended wave of subfreezing temperatures and snoweven...
How the Wente Chardonnay Clone Became America's Choice: The Wente wine story began in 1883, with German immigrant C.H. Wente. He learned his craft studying winemaking under Charles Krug in Napa Valley...
Huneeus Vintners to Buy Hambrecht Wine Group's Russian River Valley Winery Complex for $15.5 Million: Napa-based Huneeus Vintners has decided to buy a winery complex in Sonoma County for $15.5 million,...
California has given away rights to far more water than it has:
California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has, making it hard for regulators to tell whose supplies...
Scientists use grape chemistry to forecast wine flavour:
Researchers in Australia believe they may be able to influence a wine's flavour and aroma by manipulating the chemical make-up of grapes while...
Where the biggest beer, wine, and liquor drinkers live in the U.S.:
America's thirst for alcohol might know no boundaries, but certain parts of the country do seem especially parched...
