The Great Winery Sell-off of 2016 was just the beginning, both in the U.S. and abroad. When billionaire Stan Kroenke, owner of Napa cult winery...
U.S. wine consumers are willing to pay more for wine — up to several dollars more per bottle — produced using “sustainable” practices, according to...
Most enology graduates are women, so why aren’t there more women winemakers? James Lawrence asks. To the casual observer, it’s a reasonably enlightened time for...
Climate change means winemakers are trying to become more energy-efficient and make their product using less water On a misty autumn morning in Sonoma County,...
California’s wine industry suffered a blow over the weekend as Sonoma County – home to 60,000 acres of vineyards and more than 425 wineries –...
The voyage of life can be much like that of a Tumbleweed. We break away from our roots and go where the wind takes us....
On the label, Peay Vineyards wines tout their origin on the “Sonoma Coast,” an American Viticultural Area, or AVA. Wines produced several hours’ drive south...
Visit Temecula Valley Special to Valley News The annual growth cycle of Temecula Valley’s grapevines consummates in autumn with leaf fall followed by vine dormancy....
If you’ve ever wondered what the hell makes one wine cost $600, welcome to the club! Sometimes, the price tag on expensive wine comes down...
You will often hear winemakers waxing lyrical about the merits of being hands-off, letting the winemaking happen in the vineyard and having minimum intervention. But...
In all of Champagne, only a few tiny parcels of land were mysteriously untouched by a phylloxera blight that ravaged European winemakers in 1863, ruining...
Sardinia is a lovely island off the southwestern coast of Italy. While it is part of Italy, its heritage and influences are as much Spanish...
I’ve tasted wines of the Central Coast for some time without much knowledge of the place where they came from and why the Pinot Noirs...
With grapes solidly post-fermentation across the Northern Hemisphere, winemakers are finally beginning to give thanks for a little free time in their schedules. Now that...
There’s a visceral reaction the first time you taste an orange wine. It doesn’t fit into all the boxes your wine brain has organized—too rich...