Average price of a bottle of US wine hits $56.78 // Sonoma County Winegrowers names new executive director, expands winery focus

The price of American wine shot up 11% last year to more than $50 per bottle, reveals numbers crunched by Sovos ShipCompliant. But which regions saw the highest leaps?

The trade organization historically focused on supporting the region’s grape growers announced a reorganization this week to shift more of its attention to local wineries.

Cognac winegrowers in France have agreed to finance the uprooting of their own vines. They are calling on merchants to help co-fund the plan.

Marking the most challenging year since the report's inception in 2010, 2025 saw record drops in both the volume and value of DtC wine shipments.

The ultimate cool-kids winery has made a major acquisition.

Delicato Family Wines has announced more switches away from Republic National Distributing Co in a raft of US markets.

Wine shaped the earliest debates about trade, taxation and political authority far more than we usually admit.

While wine importers wait on the Supreme Court, the White House is threatening even more duties on imported wine.

Bigger players producing more than 500,000 cases per year saw the largest slump in sales during 2025, reveals shipping company Sovos, while smaller producers were more shielded from the downturn.

Australian wine exports declined by 8 per cent in value to $2.34 billion and 6% in volume to 613 million litres in 2025, according to Wine Australia’s Export Report released today.

While it is true that some inventories remain swollen and activity in the bulk wine and grape markets is sluggish, significant actions (and reactions) to correct this oversupply have been underway behind the scenes for years.

Napa DtC wine shipping eked out an overperformance of the DtC wine shipping channel, which saw nearly universal declines.

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Heavy drinking linked to higher colorectal cancer risk in a major study of 88,000 U.S. adults. Consistent alcohol use shows strongest connection to disease.

Kim Crawford winemaker Dave Edmonds shares some thoughts on terroir’s role in the art of blending the winery's popular Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc.

Born out of resistance, Equinox is Orin Swift founder Dave Phinney’s most personal project yet: elusive, deeply intentional, and gone forever once it’s gone.

The 26th Wine Star Awards took place on January 26 in New York City and proved that the industry is facing its future with a sense of hope.

Trone was selected by the award committee for exhibiting the defining qualities of a H.E.R.O. — Humanitarian, Ethical, Respectful and One-of-a-kind— as exemplified by the award’s namesake, Ray Herrmann.