August 7, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Napa Kicks Off Another “Classic” Harvest After nearly five years of drought made every Napa Valley harvest kickoff story complicated,...
August 4, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: At Wine and Weed Symposium, Vintners Find Themselves Surrounded by Economic Opportunity Wine professionals found themselves surrounded by potential...
July 7, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Are Hand-Picked Grapes Better Than Machine-Harvested? Marketers love to affix the word “hand” to imply artisan craftmanship behind products....
May 18, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Constellation Brands Might Be Sniffing Around Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, the umbrella for a group of premium brands (the...
May 9, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: What’s Craft Beer’s Bigger Threat? Wine, Whiskey, Weed…or All 3? There are more breweries in existence today than at any other...
May 3, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Registration Opens for First Wine & Weed Symposium The Wine Industry Network today announced that registration is open for the inaugural Wine...
May 1, 2017
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: 2016 California Wine Sales in U.S. Hit New Record: 238 Million Cases with Retail Value of $34.1 Billion California wine shipments to the U.S. reached...
April 25, 2017
Sex, Love and the $1000 Breakfast Wine I had a $1000 bottle of wine for breakfast. I'm going to tell you all about the wine: how it was made, what it tastes like, and why it worries me about Napa Valley's...
April 24, 2017
Value Wins at Sonoma Wine Auction
Many people told me this off the record so I'm going to lead with it: the Sonoma County Barrel Auction is more fun than Premiere Napa Valley...
April 13, 2017
A Foot in Two Industries: How Wine and Weed Cross-Pollinate Cannabis has long been grown in the shadows, under the canopies of the Emerald Triangle, while wine grapes were grown in the neighboring counties...