July 31, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: California Flip Flops on Wine Delivery Law Wine delivery apps have become big business as the delivery market has been transformed by technology...
July 28, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Owner of Healdsburg’s Wilson Winery Hit with $56,000 in Pollution Fines A Healdsburg vintner with a history of breaking environmental laws agreed...
July 11, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: The $110 Million Question: Is Alcohol Good for You? With researchers producing a seemingly constant stream of studies about alcohol’s protective...
July 11, 2017
The reality is that the clientele remains largely in the dark about what to expect, despite a significant uptick since 2010 in the number of producers making premium wines. While the industry itself grapples...
April 26, 2017
Napa County: Wine Business Dominates Large Real Estate Deals A number of the most significant commercial real estate deals in the county in the past 12 months have been at large industrial properties....
April 19, 2017
California's First 'Wine & Weed Symposium' Arrives in August California has been a powerful force on the global wine scene for decades. Meanwhile, the state's never been a slouch when it comes to high...
March 3, 2017
Wine and Marijuana Cause Problems for Beer Industry: Wine and marijuana are cutting into craft beer's buzz, as growth in each of those segments took some use occasions away from a craft category that slowed...
February 27, 2017
Another Outstanding Napa Valley Vintage Inspires Feverish Bidding at Premiere Napa Valley: Wines from the high quality but low yielding 2015 harvest took center stage at today's 21st annual Premiere Napa...
February 20, 2017
How Costco's Wine Guru Picks the 250 Labels That Will Sell $4 Billion a Year in Booze: There are almost 10,000 wineries in the United States alone, and there are 500 Costco warehouse stores in North America,...
January 30, 2017
Is the Intelligent Vineyard the Future of Winegrape Growing?: Phil Asmundson is by no means a veteran viticulturist, but a half-dozen years ago, after watching his wife and business partner, Kim, augering...