Tag: Wine Pleasures

The California Wine Industry Is Facing Unprecedented Challenges, Causing Many Winery Owners to Consider Acquisitions: Consolidation is nothing new for the wine industry, but the pace of change has accelerated in recent years as interest rates have risen, costs of labor and supplies have jumped, and demand for wine has softened...

December 11th - Wine Pleasures, a leading global authority on sparkling wine, today announced the winners of the prestigious “50 Great Sparkling Wines of...

Napa Valley Wine Grapes Thrive After Record Rainfall, but Cool Weather May Delay Harvest: California's normally bountiful wine grape harvest had been hindered in recent years by a combination of drought and wildfires...

Competition Presents the Winners of the "50 Great Red Wines of the World 2023" Competition June 26th - Welcome to our exclusive coverage of the...

What the Sale of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Means for Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and Northwest Wine: Yesterday Ste. Michelle Wine Estates (SMWE) and Italian producer Marchesi Antinori announced that the latter purchased full ownership of Napa Valley’s Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars...

Wine Pleasures reveals the awards and scores of the very first European based competition to find the 50 Great Canned Wines of the World...

Herbicide the Star of New Napa Movie: Documentary filmmaker Brian Lilla says he moved from Oakland, California to Napa to get away from gun violence, because he and his wife wanted to have kids. Once there, he discovered grapegrowers spraying Roundup on their vines and it disturbed him enough to make a movie about it...

Cal/OSHA Safety Board Denies Monarch Tractor Petition to Modify Regulations Regarding Autonomous Tractor Use: Current California safety regulations under the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) written in the 1970s require a human operator to be stationed at the vehicular controls for all self-propelled tractors used in agricultural operations, thus presenting a regulatory roadblock to the use of autonomous, driver optional tractors that are being developed, marketed and trialed for use in California's vineyards and farmlands...

Now in its second year, Wine Pleasures reveals the 50 Great White Wines of the World Awards and results 2022. June 20th - This year’s...

With Napa Cab Increasingly Out of Reach, Could It Be Sonoma’s Turn for the Spotlight?: It’s hard to talk about California wine without immediately turning to Napa Valley. And with good reason. California was in large part put on the global wine map thanks to the 1976 Paris Tasting, when a Napa Valley Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon bested their French counterparts to the whole world’s surprise...

The 12th edition of Italy’s leading B2B Workshop originally due to take place 1-3 March will take place on 2 - 4 May due to importer concerns...

9th Annual WIN Expo Returns In-Person: After a two year hiatus, Wine Industry Network (WIN) hosted the 9th Annual North Coast Wine Industry Expo (WIN Expo) at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds on December 2...

Wine Institute Reiterates Support for Elimination of Wine Tariffs: One year ago, Wine Institute joined with Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins (CEEV) to call for the complete removal of all tariffs on wine (“zero for zero”) and to reiterate the universal industry support for the “wine for wine” principle...

January 8th- The world’s largest and most relevant sparkling wine competition for bubblies made under established rules by Spain’s Cava Regulating Board, the 50...

Once again Italy and Portugal dominate the best of the bubblies from around the world with England and New Zealand also sharing Gold. January 4th...