Tag: Sonoma County

Official Barrel Auction Label Unveiled Santa Rosa, CA (November 18, 2015) —Today, Sonoma County Vintners will begin accepting requests for trade invitations for the...

Auctioneers at Christie's 'Tried to Sell Fake Wine After Ignoring Experts' Warnings That Burgundy and Bordeaux's Were Cheap Copies': One of Britain's best known auction houses has been caught up in a wine selling scandal in New York...

Wine Spectator to Unveil Top 100 Wines of 2015: 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 Top 100 Wines of 2015...

How Gina Gallo Is Keeping the E&J Gallo Winery on Top: Born into the legendary winemaking family pioneered by her grandfather Julio and great-uncle Ernest when they were just teenagers, after a family tragedy (their parents died in a murder-suicide) left them orphans, Gina Gallo's own career blended the commercial and creative sides of the business...

Treasury Wine Shares Climb to Record After Deal to Buy Diageo U.S., British Assets: Shares in Australia's Treasury Wine Estates Ltd jumped to a record on Monday as investors cheered its $552 million purchase of most of Diageo Plc's U.S. and British wine operations, along with plans to issue shares to fund the offer...

Oregon Vineyards Draw Out-of-State Buyers: The drought in California and affordable acreage are prompting explosive growth in the market for Oregon vineyards...

El Niño Now Among Strongest in Modern History; Unusually Warm and Unsettled Conditions Persist in California: Not only is 2015 California's warmest year on record to date (beating the previous record set all the way back in 2014), but the details of the persistently elevated temperatures have been particularly oppressive...

More Glassy-Winged Sharpshooters Found in Marin, Sonoma: Agricultural pest inspectors in Sonoma and Marin counties found a greatly feared nemesis for North Coast winegrape vines, as well as for other plants, on nursery shipments from Southern California...

Sonoma County Vineyard Owners Lauded for Water Conservation: Two top state regulators came to Wine Country Friday to applaud 41 rural landowners, including the owners of seven vineyards, for signing voluntary agreements to conserve water or add water to coho salmon-rearing creeks in the Russian River watershed...

Californian Wine Hits Back at Arsenic 'Propaganda': The body representing Californian winemakers has refuted claims made in a study released this week that said potentially dangerous levels of arsenic are present in nearly all American red wine...

Truck Spills 8,000 Pounds of Red Wine Grapes Onto Highway 128: A trucker hauling grapes through the Alexander Valley spilled a large load of grapes onto Highway 128 Tuesday morning after apparently taking a curve too fast and hitting a culvert, CHP officials said...

Sonoma County Harvest Fair's Sweepstakes Wine Winners Revealed: A sauvignon blanc, a pinot noir and a late harvest semillon won the coveted sweepstakes awards Sunday at the Sonoma County Harvest Awards Gala, with two of the three hailing from the Russian River valley appellation...

Truett-Hurst Reports Sales Increase, but Trouble for New Wine Spritzer Brand: Truett-Hurst Inc. announced Thursday that it is killing off its highly touted wine spritzer brand sold exclusively in Kroger stores because of poor sales, providing another black mark for the Healdsburg vintner in a year that has been plagued by packaging problems...

Ste. Michelle CEO: Economic Factors Key in Wine’s Pacific Northwest Migration: Washington state may be overshadowed by California's wine industry, but it is gaining prominence and will continue to do so thanks to cheap land, fewer regulations and growing recognition of the quality of the Evergreen State's varietals...

Wine & Spirits Magazine Announces Top 100 Wineries of 2015: Wine & Spirits Magazine has announced the Top 100 Wineries of 2015, producers from around the world that earned the magazines highest ratings across a range of their wines...