28th Premiere Napa Valley brings in $3 million // Australian Vintage confirms merger talks with Accolade Wines

Premiere Napa Valley, the annual fundraiser for the Napa Valley Vintners, brought in $3 million during the multi-day event that culminated with a Saturday auction at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.

In an update made to the ASX today, Australian Vintage Limited (ASX: AVG) has addressed recent media speculation about a potential transaction between Australian Vintage and Accolade Wines.

Spring frost: Grape growers will receive vineyard-specific forecasts of frost risk via a mobile app after the innovative project secured £300,000 in government funding.

E. & J. Gallo Winery qualifies for manufacturer tax status and a lower franchise tax rate for its vineyard along Seneca Lake, the New York Division of Tax Appeals said.

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While previous studies have focused on the front labels of red wines, a recent research study focuses on the effects of color on back labels and includes white wine varieties.

Italian wine exports to the country's five key export markets declined 4.4% in volume and 7.3% in value in 2023, to €4.45 billion.

India offers strong growth prospects for beverage alcohol companies in 2024 and beyond, driven by a mix of positive demographics, premiumisation, an increasingly sophisticated retail channel, and a progressively more adventurous consumer base.

Wineries have until July 1, 2025 to implement approved CRV container labeling.

Winegrowers have voted in favour of "emancipation" from the Côtes de Bordeaux, as the sub-region petitions to become an appellation in its own right.

Even before the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Eran Pick MW and Dan Sheinman, the winemakers at Tzora Winery, together with Golan Flam, the winemaker and owner of Flam Winery, both in the Judean Hills, started toying with the idea of acquiring a winery in Bordeaux.

Wine firm Wildshark Vineyard has submitted plans for a new winery, visitor centre and hotel in Maidstone, Kent. 

It’s a vintage that is said to be structured yet silky, destined for the cellar, as well as for drinking in its fresh youthfulness.

Clos des Goisses is a pioneering single-vineyard Champagne that—according to its current philosophy—is now produced every vintage.

Vintage this year has been extraordinarily early in Western Australia, to the extreme that Faber Vineyard in the Swan Valley started picking grapes in December.

Cold winters are normal in the PNW, but this one follows one from December 2022. Both were more severe, and lengthier than the usual, and thus more deadly and potentially with more far-reaching consequences than spring frosts.

California and Chile share a history of water allocation with little regard for instream uses of water, especially environmental uses.

Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.