Australian Vintage delivers AU$93 million loss // The grey area of tasting wine

The extent of the problems facing Australian Vintage over the past 12 months have been laid bare by its financial results.

Is what we think we taste – in wine, but also in other food and drink – actually what we taste, or are we being ‘tricked’?

As wildfires become more intense due to climate change, the need for smoke taint prevention has never been more critical.   

How premium producers keep tabs on their stockists.

A winemaker who worked for stellar Pinot Noir wine producers in Sonoma starts making wines under his own label from his family's vineyard in the Sonoma Coast.

Jay Adair, executive chairman of Dallas-based auto salvage yard giant Copart and a Solano County wine grape grower, on Friday was part of the $47 million second round of bids for wineries and brands owned by the Santa Rosa-anchored Vintage Wine Estates portfolio.

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Commerce makes affirmative preliminary antidumping determinations.

At around 5am today, we kicked off the 2024 harvest with six bins of Viognier from the top of our tallest hill.

Harvest has begun in Washington’s Columbia Valley. Charles Auclair of Woodinville’s Auclair Winery kicked things off Saturday August 24th, picking Sauvignon Blanc from Artz Vineyard on Red Mountain.

The Sonoma County Winegrowers sponsored a technology pilot project with the giant agricultural equipment manufacturer, showcasing a “smart” spraying device at a recent “Ag Day.”

Chateau La Coste participated in the first voyage of the cargo ship Anemos, from TOWT, to ship its rosé wines to the United States.

Canada’s Industrial Relations Board has ruled a shutdown on the country’s two largest rail networks must end.

Napa County counters the Hoopes winery's accusation of misconduct in a court case.

Turns out Freedom is exactly what's called for in the wine world.

We often talk about trends and problems in the wine industry, but I think we all know that wine isn’t a single business about which it is easy to generalize.

Making the case for multi-vintage blends, Robert Joseph explores a return to tradition and explains the benefits in difficult wine-growing conditions.

One of the more interesting stories to have emerged as a result of the invention of grape DNA testing is that of Zinfandel, which for almost 150 years was believed to be a distinctly US grape variety.