Smart Branding Key to Future Wine Sales: The wine industry has often been among the slowest to react to economic change. As the United States pulls into a decade of recession and recovery, wine executives...
California’s Edgiest, Riskiest Wine Region Is About to Get a New Name: The remote coastline of Sonoma never fails to impress. Chilly fog and wind roll in from the Pacific, covering ridges of towering redwoods...
Package Redesign Flipped Double Digit Decline to Growth: To say Cline Cellars Marketing Director Christine Lilienthal is thrilled about the new label design and packaging for the winerys core Lodi Zinfandel...
Chicago Runs Wine Across the Indiana Border: Chicago has never been a very clean town when it comes to politics or crime. However, given how high state and city booze taxes are here, its residents may...
Searching for the Truth About Smoke Taint: With wildfires still blazing, Tom Jarvis tells you all you need to know about the effect on grapes...
Will the Mendocino Complex Fires Put a Chokehold on Grapes This Harvest? The Mendocino Complex fires in Lake County created a dense plume of smoke over the Beckstoffer vineyard for several days in early...
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Wine Marketers Turn to ‘Big Data’ to Uncork More Sales For an industry steeped in tradition over hundreds of years, the business of making...
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Fire Risk for Napa County Vineyards A huge wildfire has crossed over into Napa County, less than a year after the region was devastated by one of...
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Wine and Weed Go to War in Oregon Pot legalization has pitted a wine farmer against a weed farmer in an ugly, fragrant fight… Today’s...
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Napa’s Measure C Now Almost Certain to Fail Measure C, also known as the Napa Oak Woodlands and Watershed Protection Initiative, came out of election...
