January 2, 2018
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Do Celebrity Wines Sell?
Industry professionals discuss how fame affects the retail sales of wines associated with actors, musicians, and sports...
December 14, 2017
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Alcohol Will ‘Disappear’ Within a Generation, Claims Scientist
A neuropsycho pharmacologist, and the UK’s former chief drugs officer,...
September 5, 2017
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SVB on Wine: Premium Wine Sales Decelerating
It’s easy to tell people what they want to hear. It’s harder to tell them what they don’t...
July 13, 2017
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Bordeaux’s Most Expensive Wines
It’s not often “Bordeaux” crops up in the same sentence as “bargain” –...
July 10, 2017
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Fire Nears Historic Vineyard and Wineries
Cal Fire’s San Luis Obispo Unit reported Monday morning that the Alamo Fire had grown to nearly...
May 22, 2017
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Napa County Wineries Face More Permit Scrutiny
After two years of discussion, the Napa County Board of Supervisors is this year developing changes...
May 16, 2017
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Truett-Hurst Reports Sales Decrease
Truett-Hurst Inc. of Healdsburg on Thursday reported that its net sales for the past nine months have decreased...
May 5, 2017
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Worker Killed in Fall at Sutter Home Winery in St. Helena
A worker installing refrigeration piping at Sutter Home’s Main Street facility in...
February 1, 2017
The 9 Top Trends in Wine Consumption to Watch Right Now: For wine industry sleuths, observing and analyzing wine lifestyle behavior in America was once an easier exercise. Twenty years ago, baby boomers...
December 8, 2016
Crimson Wine Group Buys Historic Blocks of Seven Hills Vineyard: Casey McClellan planted Merlot in the original Seven Hills Vineyard in 1982 and his family shared in its ownership for years while his winery...
November 23, 2016
Wine Spectator to Unveil Top 100 Wines of 2016: After tasting more than 18,000 wines from vineyards around the globe, the editors at Wine Spectator are set to release their much-anticipated list of the...
November 18, 2016
Sonoma’s ‘Worst Road’ Gets a Winery: It took a four-and-a-half-hour meeting, over 20 public speakers and sometimes testy exchanges between county officials, but on Tuesday the Board of Supervisors voted...
November 17, 2016
Treasury Wine Estates Complaint to Tmall Over 'Fake' Penfolds: Just a week since Tmall wrapped up the much-anticipated Singles Day online festival that brought in about US$18 billion for Alibaba, and the...
November 15, 2016
Opportunity Knocks: Challenges for Winery Associations: Regardless of the size of a winegrowing region or the number of wineries or vineyards in it, the biggest challenge is continuing to attract visitors...
November 11, 2016
This Algorithm’s Taste in Wine Is Better Than Yours: So, you want to buy a bottle of wine. You sort of know what you like-bold reds, crisp whites-but not much more than the names of a few grapes...
October 28, 2016
Bordeaux Court Deliberates on Fraud Case Involving More Than 1 Million Bottles of Wine: A Bordeaux judicial tribunal is weighing the fates of eight men accused of trying to pass off more than 1 million...















