December 8, 2020
Sonoma County Supervisors Eye Changes to Rules Governing Vineyard Development: Changes sought by grape growers to Sonoma County’s ordinance governing vineyard development are set to come before the Board...
June 11, 2020
Data Shows Economists Are Wrong—Wine Industry Doesn’t Support Trump: Quite recently the American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) made headlines by publishing a dataset highlighting presidential campaign...
May 14, 2020
Oregon Wineries Begin Reopening, Kicking Off with Those in 28 of 36 Counties: After having closed tasting rooms for almost two months to on-premise wine tastings and consumption, on May 7th, Oregon Governor...
April 28, 2020
Increase in Number of Alcohol Buying Consumers Drives Off-Premise Growth: Nielsen Beverage Alcohol Practice reports total alcohol sales are up 15.9% in Nielsen off-premise channels for the week ending...
January 9, 2020
Wine’s Most Inspiring People 2020: Leading with the Future in Mind: As a third-generation descendant of an iconic Napa Valley wine family and the owner of the oldest winery in Napa Valley, Peter Mondavi,...
November 8, 2019
Tom Baffer, Executive director of Local 2D addresses the impact of Total Wine at press conference.
Following a strong outcry by local Queens small business wine and liquor store merchants against a proposed...
July 25, 2019
Foley Family Wines of Santa Rosa President Hugh Reimers Abruptly Leaves Company: Hugh Reimers, a hard-charging Australian wine executive, abruptly left his position this week as president of Foley Family...
March 4, 2019
Napa Valley Vintner John R. Shafer Dies at Age 94: The Shafer family is deeply saddened to announce the death of their father, longtime vintner, philanthropist and winery founder, John Shafer on March...
February 22, 2019
Roederer Buys Sonoma's Merry Edwards Winery: The Louis Roederer Champagne house has purchased Russian River Valley Pinot Noir specialist Merry Edwards Winery. The deal includes the brand and its inventory,...
January 25, 2019
Direct Sales Alters US Wine Market: In 2018, wineries shipped more than 6 million cases of wine, a nine percent increase over the previous year, according to Larry Cormier's presentation at the annual...