April 21, 2017
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Silver Oak Owners Purchase Ovid Winery
The owners of the Napa Valley’s Silver Oak and Twomey wineries have purchased Ovid, an estate vineyard...
April 10, 2017
We Know What We Don't Know About Wine's Future
According to Lee Hannah and Terra Alpaugh, "Everything You Know About Wine is Wrong." That is the title of their Wine Economics Working Paper #204...
January 17, 2017
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Meritage – Death of a Marketing Label
As searches for the term enter a terminal tailspin, W. Blake Gray asks why producers still call wines Meritage…
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Former Penfolds owner John Spalvins launches attack on Foster's and Treasury Wine:
John Spalvins, one of Australias best-known corporate raiders from the 1980s, whose company once owned the famous Penfolds...