Wine Country Is Officially Closed for Wine Tastings Under Bay Area’s New Regional Stay-at-Home Order: After several months of back-and-forth opening and closing restrictions, Bay Area wineries were handed...
Duckhorn Wine CEO: Planning for Luxury Market After Boomers, Coping with New Napa County Regulations: Napa Valley-based Duckhorn Wine Company makes ultrapremium and luxury brands Decoy, Duckhorn, Goldeneye,...
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Opus One Winery Fined for Accidental Grape Waste Discharge
Opus One Winery has agreed to pay nearly $12,000 for accidentally dumping an unknown...
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...
California's Trailblazing Women Winemakers: The First 20 Years (1965 to 1984): Women and men alike have long been involved in the production of wine in California, but historically few women were known...
UV Light Box Offers Hope for Vegan Wine Lovers, Says Winemaker: A Swiss company claims to be offering winemakers a new weapon against harsh tannins and underripe wines. Some winemakers also believe that...
Winery Worker, Napa Resident Killed on the Job: A Napa winery employee was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics after a stack of metal wine barrel racks fell on him, according to the Napa County...
How Big Alcohol Is About to Get Rich Off California Weed: With recreational marijuana on the ballot, some worry that big business will transform the way pot is grown, distributed and sold...
California Eradicates the European Grapevine Moth: In what's being heralded a "success story," California is officially eradicated of the European grapevine moth...
Unfair Competition in the Wine Industry: California counties are increasingly using California's Unfair Competition Law to bring government enforcement actions against local businesses for myriad reas...
