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Sonoma and Napa counties grapple with winery outreach directly to consumers
Sixty percent of wineries in the unincorporated areas of Sonoma County have tasting rooms, compared with 90 percent in Napa County, according to planning officials who have been analyzing winery use permit activity recently and trends in response to a growing number of applications for more direct-to-consumer marketing and hospitality activities where the wine is made…
Unpretentious Millennials Are Changing the Way We Drink Wine, Barefoot’s CMO Says
When it comes to successful family businesses, it’s hard to find a more American example than E&J Gallo. Now in its 81st year, the winery is the largest on earth (16,000 acres in California) whose 60 brands have a lock on nearly a quarter of the U.S. wine market, and it’s still being run by the family…
Napa Wine Heist Is Tough Case to Solve
The list of suspects could number in the dozens – or more. The places where the stolen loot could be sold: almost anywhere on earth…
Do “hand-picked” grapes mean better wine?
Stanford linguistic professor Dr. Dan Jurafskys recent book on The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu includes a perspicacious observation about high-class versus budget restaurant menus…
Scientist: Wine Breeding Might Be Key To Combating Climate Change
TGIC Announces Corporate Name Change to Guarachi Wine Partners
Santa Rosa Junior College sets first-ever ‘Wine Classic’
French court places 1855.com in liquidation
Sonoma County hard cider companies chase juicy market
Premiere Napa Valley: Wine lots revealed for annual auction
Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Moves to Seduce the American Wine Market
Treasury Wine Estates hires strategic consultant for China market
Concha y Toro Opens New Center for Research and Innovation
Sparkling wine supplier Frizzenti hits back over Prosecco legal battle
U.S. wineries press for calorie ‘estimates’
Are Wineries Going to Buy Fewer Grapes in 2015?
Update: Charles Smith dropped lawsuit against Gray Report readers
Guilty of these bad tech habits?
Unfiltered predicts most talked-about wine stories for 2015
Terroir: Fact, fiction or just plain science?
Circling New York Wine Country, Through the Finger Lakes and Beyond
Jason Wilson: It’s wine, Jim, but not as we know it
Crowd-based reviews? A consideration
Boost click-through rates with A/B testing
The Zinfandel Experience: January 31, San Francisco
Wine Curmudgeon: Wine trends in 2015
Wine people like vs. wine for oenophiles, Rombauer edition
Wine prices in 2015: Stealth increases
When Wine Is Really Nothing More than Wet Sugar
Opening A Winery and Tasting Room in Santa Barbara County
