March 23, 2026
Taste new heights in wine and meet El Dorado wine region’s mountain winemakers at Wines That Touch the Sky! An afternoon of incredible wines and views from Sacramento’s Citizen Hotel, overlooking...
November 19, 2020
Improved Dealcoholization Technology Preserves Beverage Quality and Meets New Consumer Demands: “Low and no” are shorthand for one of the beverage industry’s most pronounced trends, a worldwide shift toward...
November 19, 2020
Santa Rosa, Calif., —November 19, 2020— The Sierra Foothills AVA took the big prize at the 2020 Harvest “Terroir” Challenge, the only competition to judge wines by American Viticultural Area. This year’s...
August 23, 2018
Wineries and family business go hand-in-hand since most smaller wineries are family owned and operated. As we know, not all wineries approach the industry in the same way and they are all at different...
August 9, 2017
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Investigation Continues into Large Mount Veeder Winery Wastewater Spill
State investigators are still looking for the cause of a Mount Veeder winery...
October 5, 2016
Napa Vineyard Worker Killed After Being Crushed by Forklift: A Napa vineyard worker was killed Monday afternoon after he was ejected from the forklift he was driving and the machine fell on top of him,...
July 29, 2016
Innovative Wine Industry Veteran Phil Hurst Announces Changes at Truett-Hurst, Inc.: Phil Hurst, Co-Founder and President and CEO of Truett-Hurst, Inc., announced today that the VML tasting room and ultra-premium...
July 13, 2016
On-Premise Beverage Alcohol Consumption Continues to Decline: The on-premise beverage alcohol market was unable to capitalize on an improving economy, as consumption decreased for the third consecutive...
July 5, 2016
Treasury Wine Estates to Offload 12 US Wine Brands: The group said on Monday that it would sell 12 US wine brands that were part of its "non-core" portfolio at "approximately book value"...
June 23, 2016
Millennials Weigh In on What Makes Food Brands Authentic: Today Watershed Communications released findings from two national ethnographic studies examining the media habits of millennial food and beverage...









