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Holiday Horror Stories from the Land of Retail
When trouble strikes in retail, it’s often during the holidays. The two-week period around Christmas and New Year’s Eve is the biggest time of year for wine sales in the U.S…
Dry Wells and Sinking Ground as State Struggles with Groundwater Crisis
Two decades ago, the rolling hills of Paso Robles were mostly covered with golden grass and oak trees. Now the hills and valleys are blanketed with more than 32,000 acres of grapevines…
Wine Institute Discusses Top Issues with California Legislators, Including the Extension of the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act
The future of the wine excise tax reform approved late 2017, tariffs on US wine exports, and Brexit are among the issues on the Wine Institutes to-do list, according to a recent hearing focusing on the wine industry before state legislators…
Napa Valley Vintners Earn State’s Top Environmental Award
The Napa Valley Vintners, trade group for the local wine industry, received the state’s highest environmental honor this week for its work turning Napa wineries green…
Marijuana Pesticide Contamination Worries Oregon Farmers
California Table Grape Industry Continues Record-Breaking Shipping Season
TTB Notices of Proposed Rulemaking
Brewers Association Celebrates the Year in Beer
Diageo Under Fire for 1,700 ‘Deceptive’ Cîroc Ads
Broader Fine Wine Market Rises in November
‘Save the Old Vines’ Pleads Spanish Master of Wine
Wine Australia and University of Adelaide Sign Multi-Million-Dollar Partnership
Clare Winemakers and Growers Declare ‘the Secret of Red Wine’ Must Be Better Told
New Zealand’s Yealands Fined $400k for Deliberate and Deceptive Breaches of Wine Act
Getting the Right Wines in the Right Hands
Lessons Learned from the 2018 Lake County Wildfires
Classification of the Cellaring Wines of Australia
The Field Guide to Italian Sparkling Wine
California Farm Bureau Federation President Outlines Policy Priorities
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James Suckling Joins Masterclass to Teach Wine Appreciation
Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas Welcomes 6 Master Sommeliers to Its Prestigious Ranks
Yealands Wines Founder Peter Yealands Pleads Guilty to Polluting Stream
Chris Hall of Long Meadow Ranch Wins Wine Industry Award
Interview, Part 2: Amy Hoopes, President, Wente Family Estates
Vinventions Fully Embraces the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Deerbusters Expands Product Category with Maximum Strength Extruded Deer Fence
Winery Hospitality Sales Training Workshop Offered February 5th
Cold Shot Chillers Has Developed and Launched a New Technology to Make Chillers Smarter
There’s an Escape Room in a Castle in California, Complete with Wine
Introducing Unreliable Narrator and Daring Greatly from the Winemakers of Blackbird Vineyards
7’Eleven Introduces Wine in Cans: Roamer
Quinta Do Crasto Joins Folio Fine Wine Partners
Modesto’s Gallo Rebrands and Relaunches Thunderbird Wine