June 16, 2025
ICE Wine - Arrests Stun Willamette Valley: It was only a matter of time before the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented immigrants reached the wine community. That happened Thursday morning,...
February 9, 2024
Preliminary 2023 Winegrape Crush Report at 3.67 Million Tons: The California Department of Food and Agriculture Preliminary Grape Crush Report, containing tons crushed and prices of wine grapes sold during...
February 8, 2024
At 2024 ZAP, it became clear that California Zinfandel has finally grown up
By Randy Caparoso
There is, undoubtedly, no organization that’s done more for a single varietal category than Zinfandel Advocates...
September 29, 2021
This op is written from a sommelier’s perspective. I know a lot of them because I was a sommelier who worked in restaurants for over 28 years, and am currently affiliated SOMM Journal.
—Randy Caparoso
This...



