Grape Harvest Off to an Early Start in Napa Valley: George Sanchez said he's been harvesting grapes for 40 years. On Wednesday, his seasonal ritual began earlier than ever in a Napa Valley vineyard soaked...
Wine Country vintners turn to truffles: On the edge of his Sonoma vineyard aptly named Scintilla, vintner Robert Sinskey has yanked out grapevines to make room for a few hundred oak and filbert trees....
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...
California aquifers contaminated with billions of gallons of fracking wastewater:
Industry illegally injected about 3 billion gallons of fracking wastewater into central California drinking-water and...
Constellation plans to put millions of earthworms to work in 2015. Don’t worry, they won’t be making the wine, they’ll be cleaning the wastewater from winery operations.
BioFiltro is currently running...
Napa, Sonoma wineries examine safety of barrel rooms after quake:
Though 14 years ago, Bob Torres still vividly remembers the day he and other wine industry officials saw a demonstration at UC Berkeleys...
Craft Beverage Expo Draws 1,300 Attendees to Launch Event in San Jose, California:
More than 1,300 attendees, who are members of the artisan wine, craft beer, craft spiritsand craft cider industries,...
Healdsburg gets OK to use treated wastewater for vineyards:
After months of delay, Healdsburg finally has approval to use reclaimed water from its sewer treatment plant to irrigate vineyards in a wide...
Advanced bio-technology can significantly reduce the cost of water treatment for wineries and make them more sustainable by reducing their energy consumption.
Matt Silver, CEO Cambrian Innovation, Unified...
