‘Emergency’ €80m promised to French winegrowers amid farmer protests // Accolade Wines set for growth with recapitalisation plan

France's government has promised an €80m emergency fund for crisis-hit winemakers, as ministers also try to de-escalate widespread farmer protests.

Accolade Wines and AWL have reached an agreement which will stabilise the future of the winemaking business.

The world’s first fully autonomous, multi-tasking robotic vineyard tractor is currently being trialled in Australia for the first time, following trials in its home market of New Zealand.

Escalating costs dampened the volumes of US direct-to-consumer wine shipment during 2023 the latest Direct-to-Consumer Wine Shipping Report from Sovos has found, with California seeing the largest declines in any state.

Published annually, Silicon Valley Bank’s State of the U.S. Wine Report provides key wine sales data and trends from the previous 12 months and includes predictions for the upcoming year.

Prices of fine wines sold at more than 250 auctions primarily in the U.S. sank last year, as the market continued to correct after peaking on a surge of buying during the pandemic, according to data from Wine Market Journal. 

Press Release - With $1.7 billion in lifetime sales, eRNDC's total revenue in the past year surpasses the revenue of the previous two years combined.

The 2024 DtC Wine Shipping Report is released and it's revealing.

Washington’s biggest winemaker, faced with declining sales, wants to redevelop half of the 118-acre site.

A bid for a new winery that could turn Kent’s only city into “England’s sparkling wine capital” is facing another legal challenge.

The Los Angeles and San Diego areas were expecting a deluge of rain on Thursday.

Water reserves fall below 16% as region’s president says it has not rained in some areas for three years.

In improv comedy, there's an important concept called "yes, and". In essence, it means that you're taking what your team has done previously and building on it.

Aotearoa New Zealand’s broader recognition of its indigenous people, Māori, and their language and culture is leading its producers to explore new approaches to wine.

There is a whole generation of people working in hospitality who grew up through Covid and don’t have that ‘pub or going out culture’…We cannot continue to assume knowledge that just isn’t there.

Efforts continue to change the way we talk about wine to make it more inclusive and accessible to people whose ethnic and cultural origins lie outside the Judeo-Christian Western culture that has for centuries defined how we look at the subject.

Andre Swart came to the winery in Sonoma County’s Russian River Valley as an enologist in mid-2022.

Triggs brings with her experience in a variety of roles from winemaking to strategic leadership, and was until recently the Head of ESG at Wine Australia.