May 6, 2024
California Wine Grape Acres Dip in 2023, May Plummet in 2024: California wine grape acreage declined nearly 1% in 2023, according to an annual government report, but the president of the California Association...
April 2, 2024
North Coast Wine Challenge Begins Tuesday: How do organizers conceal the identities of the entries in this blind tasting?...
March 21, 2024
Sherry-Lehmann’s Park Ave. Landlord Gets OK to Clear Out Booze in $4.8 Million Rent Dispute — After a Year of Collecting Dust: Iconic wine retailer Sherry-Lehmann’s Park Avenue landlord has won permission...
February 20, 2024
Grape Growers Being Paid 1970s Rates Say They Are at Breaking Point in Australia’s Largest Wine Region: Farmers in Australia's biggest wine grape growing region are preparing for crisis talks as prices...
November 7, 2019
Is Wine Premiumisation a Doom Loop?: Wine sales figures for the first half of 2019 show that the premiumisation trend in the US has begun to head south. The question every wine producer should be asking...
October 9, 2019
Sonoma County Wineries Continue the Grape Harvest Using Backup Power: Regional wineries have ramped up emergency plans for PG&E's scheduled power outage Wednesday by securing generators and electricians...
June 5, 2019
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New Privacy Law Puts California Wineries at a Competitive Disadvantage
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April 24, 2019
Why Scientists Are Studying Sommeliers’ Brains: Twenty-five sommelier students outperformed an untrained control group of 29 people at identifying a range of common wine aromas within around two months...
April 10, 2019
2018 California Crush Report by the Numbers: The 2018 California crush report was released today, and as expected the report reveals a bountiful 2018 winegrape harvest up 6.6% in volume from 4,016 thousand...