An Acclaimed Sonoma Winery Faces a $17.5 Million Suit. The Crisis Goes Far Beyond Weak Wine Sales // 2027 Napa Wine Market Outlook: Modest Progress to Continue

Experts saying the industry is confronting weaker demand, higher costs, and expensive loans.

Napa wine sales have seen a little more improvement, but there’s still plenty of wine to sell and pressure on prices.

Signorello Estate, the Napa winery that burned to the ground in the 2017 Atlas Fire, rebuilt and then went into foreclosure, sold to its creditor Friday in an auction next to the Napa County courthouse steps. 

Tuesday's "blue wave" has changed the balance of power in Washington, but by how much?

Oregon's legendary Pinot Noir winemaker Ken Wright partners with the Gussalli Beretta family in a deal that strengthens the Willamette Valley icon.

Napa County is considering some winery rule changes. Among them, “tours and tastings by appointment only” may no longer be required. One wine industry official called the proposed changes a “baby step.”

Champagne production is estimated to have fallen by 38% in 2026, according to the latest figures published by France's agriculture ministry on 6 November, even as national wine production is forecast to rise by 3%.

Napa Valley growers should not expect grape supply and demand to return to balance before 2029, Marshall Graves, managing director of First Citizens Bank's Wine Division, told attendees of the Rootstock Conference on Nov. 5.

Winemakers in the South American country are reinventing their assets, from hazelnuts to upscale real estate.

France banned six American hybrid grapes nearly a century ago. Now Clinton, Isabelle, Noah, Othello, Herbemont, and Jacquez are getting a second look for their resistance to disease and drought.

Napa's wine industry wants bigger relief. County planners offered a baby step.

WineGB’s flagship trade tasting attracted record attendance in 2026, but several prestigious English wine producers have withdrawn from the organisation.

The Napa Valley Vintners is developing a three-year effort to build trade relationships and wine-education opportunities across Caribbean markets, inaugurated at an tasting and wine education event at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Nassau, Bahamas on Oct. 23.

The team behind Florida-based retailer ABC Fine Wine & Spirits knows what it means to create a legacy in the beverage industry.

The release of the 2026 vintage will signal the run up to holiday celebrations.

It’s hard to assume the best in consumers when most the wine industry continues to do their damndest to keep them as dumb as possible, selling mostly lowest common denominator wines.

A political 'Bluenami' gives the wine industry a rare legislative opening. One insider explains why 2028 is the target year and what the industry must do to be ready.

A grapevine’s variety may matter less than previously thought when it comes to drought tolerance, according to new WSU research.

Croatia’s grape and wine production is down by around 30 per cent this year due to drought, while strong summer tourism demand has further reduced wine stocks, particularly on the mainland.

Maison Joseph Drouhin’s head winemaker said that rising temperatures are prompting a reversal of decades of vine selection in Burgundy.