Are the wheels coming off the en primeur campaign? // Private Labels Transform US Wine Market

We're into week four of the "make-or-break" Bordeaux en primeur campaign, with plenty of estates' wine now having released their 2023 vintages. But has the campaign heeded the early warnings and done what the market demanded?

The best own-label wines combine quality and value with a lesser focus on provenance, as one supermarket giant reveals.

Researchers find that heavy drinkers who cut back enjoy better cardiovascular health.

Sonoma’s Ram’s Gate Winery, which produces single-vineyard Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from top California sites, has sold to beverage conglomerate O’Neill Vintners & Distillers.

James Millton, a pioneer of organic viticulture in New Zealand, appeared in court, charged with illegally transporting vine cuttings in his suitcase from South Australia to Gisborne.

The initial assessment of May’s double hailstorm in Chablis at the start of May has confirmed there was “considerable” damage to vines in the appellation, with some areas suffering 80% losses.

The St. Helena Planning Commission is allowing Forman Vineyard to produce more wine.

The goals of the study are to empower the agricultural community through streamlined regulatory requirements, support the state’s data and information collection efforts, and strengthen protections to human health and the environment.

If you’ve been following recent headlines, you might think the wine industry is in dire straits. We dug a little deeper and found reasons to be optimistic.

Concerns over visitation, wine club retention, and the overall health of the tasting room have been pervasive issues over the last year. 

This funding is dedicated to building demand for American food and farm exports in high-potential markets around the globe.

China imported over US$10 million of wine from Australia in April, up from US$126,000 a year earlier, after it lifted punitive import tariffs at the end of March.

California winemaker O’Neill Vintners & Distillers is opening a new luxury division with the acquisition of Sonoma-based Ram’s Gate Winery for an undisclosed sum.

The struggling publicly-listed company Australian Vintage Ltd (AVG) – which has been in talks with Accolade Wines about a possible merger – has gone into a trading halt.

Majestic's chief operating office Rob Cooke, who has been with the specialist retailer for five year, has stepped down and is leaving the business.

Greene will lead the winery's growth in Eastern U.S. markets, expanding into new states.

This severe downsizing is a real loss for wine consumers, for whom Wine & Spirits aimed to be a tireless advocate.

I'm of many minds as to why the closure of Wine & Spirits print magazine didn't get more attention than it did.

Baldo Baldinini is one of the first master perfumers in Italy. He can recognize almost 50,000 scents, and is in high demand as a perfumist. His secret? He hears scents.

With the attacks on the alcohol industry coming more frequently and louder from the Neo-Prohibitionist movement, many of us in the alcohol industry are left to wonder, are we in peril of becoming the new tobacco?

In Burgundy’s Côte-d’Or department, average vineyard prices jumped 11% to €983,800 per hectare, approaching the cost of wine property in Champagne.

The sprawling Piedmont wine estate complete with organic vineyard will go under the hammer at a high-profile Sotheby’s auction.