April 28, 2026 (San Diego, CA) — SommCon Conference & Beverage Expo is now accepting speaker proposals for its 2026 San Diego gathering, inviting beverage professionals, educators, and industry...
August 11, 2025 (San Diego, CA) — The San Diego Spirits Festival returns for its 16th anniversary on September 27-28, 2025, bringing a weekend of coastal charm, craft cocktails, and world-class spirits...
Is Copper Safe for Wine? : It's a top tool of organic grapegrowers. But is copper sulfate truly safe for vineyards...
Constellation Dumps Cheap Wine for Weed: Cannabis is hot, believes the third-largest wine company in the US. Mexican beer is hot. Cheap wine, though? That's old business, best dumped on somebody else...
Wine Experts Warn of Growing Anti-Alcohol Sentiment and Aging Boomers
The industry has been riding on the "wine is good for you" trend since the early 1990s, but "negative" press about alcohol is growing,...
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Using Data to Assess Damage of Wine Country Fires
The fires in October were the costliest in California’s history to date. 42 lives were lost...
Trinchero Family Estates Announces Purchase of the Five Rivers Winery Facility in Paso Robles AVA: Trinchero Family Estates (TFE) today announced its purchase of the Five Rivers Winery facility in located...
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...
Winery Owner Charles Banks Is Indicted in Federal Court: In a surprising turn for a onetime rising star in the wine industry, Charles A. Banks walked into a San Antonio courthouse wearing handcuffs Friday...
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...
Her Side of the Story: Notes from Women Winemakers of Napa: Having many years in the wine industry, and settled into their high-profile work in the Napa Valley, these women comment on being a woman in...
Unimpressive El Niño Leaves California in Water Limbo: The rain storms and blizzards that were supposed to come with El Niño were conspicuously non-biblical in California this winter, leaving the state...
El Niño’s Long-Awaited Grand Performance Is on Its Way to California
: After a crushingly dry February, it looks as if early to mid-March is likely to bring California some of the serious moisture it needs...
Regular US Wine Drinkers to Reach Over 100m by 2025: 'Next-Gen' consumers are set to swell the number of regular wine drinkers in the US to well over 100m over the next decade, according to a new repo...
Massive El Niño Gains Strength, Likely to Drench Key California Drought Zone: One of the most powerful El Niños on record continues gathering strength and is looking increasingly likely to bring heavy...
Objections May Scuttle Jackson Wine Purchase in McMinnville: Two parties have filed objections to Jackson Family Wines purchase of two mirror-image buildings in a set of three on the campus of the former...
