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This Private Equity Company Is Quietly Becoming a Pacific Northwest Wine Powerhouse: Who is this new Seattle-based competitor scooping up winery after winery? And given the current climate of panic in...
July 6, 2023
Premiumisation was the buzzword of 2022, with US consumers trading up in both wine and spirits, but the upward trajectory of this trend is beginning to slow, as cost-of-living pressures take their toll....
June 14, 2022
Self-Driving Tractors Could Be Widespread on California Farms by Next Year: At Georges III Vineyard, a famous plot in the Napa Valley town of Rutherford that produces $150 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon,...
March 22, 2021
Sonoma County’s AG, Wine and Health Communities Have Vaccinated More Than 95% of Essential Vineyard and Wine Production Workers: Sonoma County may have the most successful vaccination effort of essential...
May 28, 2020
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Constellation Brands and E. & J. Gallo Further Revise Wine and Spirits Agreement in Connection with Federal Trade Commission Review Process
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California's Cabernet Glut Deepens: The latest Vineyard Economics Symposium revealed big challenges for some US grapegrowers...
May 6, 2020
Sonoma Wineries Are Itching to Open Up Their Doors and Invite Back Visitors: The shelter-in-place order has been hard on wineries that rely on tasting room and on-premise sales as well as their front line...
May 6, 2020
The shelter-in-place order has been hard on wineries that rely on tasting room and on-premise sales as well as their front line allies, tasting room staff and waiters, who have been out of a job...
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April 3, 2020
Sauvignon Blanc Gets Serious on California’s Central Coast: From the tips of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the deep canyons of Santa Barbara County, there’s a Sauvignon Blanc renaissance underway...