Region Sponsors Educational Conference Lunch Led by Advanced Sommelier Kat Thomas
NEW YORK, NY (August 7, 2019) — Rías Baixas Wines is heading to TexSom this August to showcase a range of styles during...
How Nomadic Winemakers Are Fueling Creativity Through Independence: If you ask Oregon winemaker Seth Morgen Long what his plans are for his young eponymous Chardonnay-only label, hell tell you his focus...
Registration open for TEXSOM 2019 Conference
Dallas, TX (June 19, 2019) – Presently celebrating its fifteenth year, TEXSOM, the most prominent and influential sommelier education conference in the world,...
Most Selective Competition in the United States Sets the Gold Standard
Dallas, Texas (March 18, 2019) –– TEXSOM Co-founders and Master Sommeliers James Tidwell and Drew Hendricks today announced the results...
DTC Channel Goes Mainstream: Direct shipping of wine is now mainstream in much of the United States. Last year, volume of direct-shipped wine was up 15.3% to 5.78 million cases, with consumer spending...
Vineyard Worker Killed in Sonoma Valley Tractor Accident
A vineyard worker died Tuesday morning after being crushed while cleaning mower equipment in a Sonoma Valley vineyard, authorities said...
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Winery Shuts Down After Complaints of Lewd Parties
A New York winery has closed its doors three weeks after its liquor licence was suspended following...
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With New To Kalon Brand, Constellation Revives Legendary Napa Wine Dispute
The battle over Napa Valley’s most contested two words –...
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Duckhorn Wine Company Acquires Central Coast Icon Calera Wine Company
Duckhorn Wine Company, which includes Duckhorn Vineyards, Goldeneye, Paraduxx,...
Dan Kosta, Co-Founder of Kosta Browne Winery, Appointed Honorary Vintner Chair of the 2016 Sonoma Wine Country Weekend: Kosta Browne Winery, a boutique, world-class winery based in Sebastopol, California,...
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...
Positive Wine Industry Survey Results, but PR Efforts Still Needed: Survey results released by Sonoma State's Wine Business Institute last week ran contrary to the impression given by several recent stories...
U.S. Wine Brands Dominate 2015 Top 10 List: The wine industry as we know it today owes an inestimable debt to European knowhow and culture, but in commercial terms today's axis leans in a very different...
California has given away rights to far more water than it has:
California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has, making it hard for regulators to tell whose supplies...
El Nino forecast drops 20 percent for Northern California:
Early reports indicate that the chance of having a strong El Niño season this winter has dropped, according to the National Weather Service...
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Fine Wine vs the Alphabet
If you want your wine to be a world-beater, aside from a space age winery and top terroir, call it something begining with “L”…
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