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Private equity has become a major player in the Napa wine industry in recent years, with wineries like Silver Oak, Far Niente, Spring Mountain and Duckhorn.

We’re now in a time when people and their governments worldwide are moving into silos. Fear, power and control, forever popular currencies, are braided and are being wielded with brutal efficiency in deportations, firings and threats.

The original Ravenswood winery near Sonoma is on the market as part of a bankruptcy sale involving dozens of commercial and residential properties in the Lefever Mattson portfolio.

Saint Urban closed in 2023 in Syracuse to make the jump to the Big Apple. Plus, Frescobaldi teams up with a cruise line.

A new economic analysis shows the high cost of inaction on California’s perpetual water supply challenges, estimating that the state could lose enough water annually to supply up to 9 million households.

With many different backgrounds and sectors of the industry represented, this dynamic group will help this program fulfill its mission to stir our conversations about equality into actions that create equity.

In 2008, Cyril Penn, the editor of Wine Business Monthly, wanted to make sense of the avalanche of winery mergers, sales, and acquisitions that had occurred over the past couple of years.

What the shuttering of Canvasback means for the state’s wine industry.

There are many different US wines available in Sweden's Systembolaget.

Power and opportunity must be diffused within the industry, not concentrated.

'When you treat yourself to a special bottle, what do you hope you’ll find?'

How do you make wine in a joint venture? The answer, perhaps, is: not exactly as you would choose.

Brewer’s chief says gaming, streaming and social media have eaten into drinking’s share of ‘entertainment and joy’.

Victoria Henson, director of Comité Champagne's UK arm said the sector had "always proved its resilience in tougher times".

After a suspension because of market trends, the auction house is re-launching its Christie's Wine Auction in New York with a whopper.

Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau is set to auction a wine collection valued at over HK$35 million (US$5.8 million) with over 200 lots of premium wines.

Diageo is set to hit full-year forecasts and launch a US$500m cost-saving drive. But US tariffs are expected to shave $150m a year from its earnings, despite partial mitigation.

Naked Wines plc announced a change in major holdings as Kapitalforeningen Wealth Invest, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, has adjusted its voting rights in the company.

The UK wine and spirits industry is having to adapt to “seismic change” following nearly a decade of reacting to successive single issues, the WSTA told an industry briefing at the London Wine Fair, as it urged the government to make a "hard commitment to economic growth". 

Harrow winery owner pleased with Ontario budget that pledges millions to boost alcohol sector.

California State Fair honors individuals and vineyards whose contributions have left an enduring impact on California’s wine industry.

The IWSC is proud to unveil the 2025 wine results, following two weeks of dedicated judging by a panel of global experts.