January 3, 2017
Napa’s Waugh Family Wines Sues Bronco Wine Co. for ‘Six Degrees’ Trademark Separation: Napa-based Waugh Family Wines on Friday said it has sued Bronco Wine Co., which has a large south Napa Valley bottling...
July 30, 2015
by Alan Goldfarb
It was in the early ‘90s that the wine industry was falling all over itself in the horrified belief that it was going to lose an entire generation of “Xers”, who were not going to drink...
June 1, 2015
What is a flack to do? When winewriters are dropping off the face of the Earth faster than icebergs, to whom does a winery publicist turn to get PR/accolades/reviews when the writer pool is evaporatin...
November 10, 2014
Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines Unveiling Begins Today:
After tasting 18,000 wines from vineyards around the globe, the editors at Wine Spectator are set to release their much-anticipated list of the Top...
August 19, 2014
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...
October 23, 2013
Tom Wark
“My first encounter with wine,” laughs wine blogger and public relations expert Tom Wark, “was when I climbed up in my parents’ pantry, attempted to pull down a jug of wine and broke it all over...




