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Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Wine Industry Racing to Meet $10–$20 a Bottle Demand Consumer thirst for wines retailing for more than $10...

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, with 49 million members and well over $100 billion a year in sales...

Californians Holding Breath as More Storms Loom: California water officials are frantically releasing water today from the Oroville Dam, located about 75 miles north of Sacramento, as concerns remain about erosion of the nation's tallest dam...

Napa Valley Vintner Debbie Lewis Dies at 72: Debbie Lewis was a perfect fit for wine. She grew up on a farm in California's Central Valley and worked in wine retail at one point. Later she married race-car driver Randy Lewis and managed his career for more than a decade...

Charles Smith Reshapes Washington Wine Industry: When Charles Smith makes a move, the earth moves. On Monday, a big "crack" was heard throughout the Washington wine industry when it was announced that Smith had sold his eponymous wine brand to mega-giant Constellation Brands for a reported $120 million...

Bulk Wine Now 38% of Global Wine Exports: The growing bulk wine category now accounts for 38.6% of global wine exports, with 39.49 million hectoliters exported around the world last year...

California Vintners Grapple with New State Law on Worker Payments: Vintners are still grappling with a new state law that mandates additional pay provisions if they compensate employees by how much they pick rather than through a straight hourly wage...

Kendall-Jackson Wine Maker Buys Former Evergreen International Headquarters: The company behind Kendall-Jackson wines is buying more property in Oregon wine country after winning an auction for the former corporate home of a defunct airline...

2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Begins Today: The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition begins today in this northern Sonoma County community, and it continues to break records...

Gallo to Acquire The Ranch Winery, Tripling Its Production Capacity in the Napa Valley: E.&J. Gallo Winery has agreed to acquire The Ranch Winery, a custom crush winery in St. Helena, California, located between Highway 29 and the Silverado Trail. The facility spans more than 70 acres and has a grape crush capacity of 30,000 tons. It also has 4.6 million cases of bottling capacity and 8 million gallons of storage space...

Is the Napa Valley Vine Trail Compatible with Growing Grapes? Whether the Napa Valley Vine Trail and farming are a good mix is a new question facing the county Board of Supervisors...

How Much Generation Y Will Pay for a Bottle of Wine: Australian Vintage wants to sell more wine to 18-to-34 year olds, and in doing so has uncovered some fascinating data about what 'generation Y' wants from its alcohol, and the amount they're prepared to pay for it...

Bacteria Behind Lethal Vine Disease Found on French Soil: The Xylella fastidiosa bacteria has been discovered on the island of Corsica, just over 18 months after its first recorded appearance in Europe, in olive groves in Italy.

Drought Is Bearing Fruit for Washington Wineries: American wine, for all the hype and hyperbole in recent years about Idaho rieslings or Pennsylvania pinot noirs, is still overwhelmingly a California thing...

Figures reveal Robert Parker's declining influence on Bordeaux wine pricing: Such is Parker's present effect on the Bordeaux market that The Wine Investment Fund uses his scores as one of three pillars by which it measures the relative value of one wine against another...