Brown-Forman drops diversity and inclusion programmes, leaves LGBTQ equity index // Wine grape smoke task force launches website

Brown-Forman has scrapped its diversity and inclusion policies and ended its participation in an LGBTQ corporate equality index.

The West Coast Smoke Exposure Task Force unveiled a new website this week to give growers, winemakers and other industry representatives resources to contend with exposures to wildfire smoke.

Corby Spirit and Wine CEO said he feels “very strong” about the outlook for the Canadian business after the company posted rising sales and profits.

The environmental certification organization talks a good game, but does it actually care about organic farming?

3.7 million people visited in 2023 and the average visitor age decreased from 46 in 2018 to 40 in 2023.

The alcohol industry sure did love Nikki Haley!

Now that TikTok has opened up to advertising for alcoholic beverages, marketers are getting ready to launch content and campaigns on the platform.

Gen Zers are more than twice (42%) as likely than the average (20%) to buy holiday gifts directly through social media in 2024, according to May 2024 research from Basis Technologies and GWI.

Canada’s FMCG sector faces weeks of disruption to supply chains, an industry leader has warned, after a shutdown of freight traffic on railways.

The Ohio Controlling Board has approved spending $55,000 on a digital ad campaign.

Australian Vintage interim CEO Peter Perrin is stepping down from his role as the vintner revealed its full-year results.

Five members of the wine trade from the US, the UK, Norway, Singapore and Mainland China have become Masters of Wine today, taking the total number of MWs to 421.

John D. Murphy appeals to preserve Lodi Lane.

What does the launch of the Robinson x Brendon Precision Glass tell us about the glassware market?

From playing music in the cellar to talking to their fermentations, Kathleen Wilcox looks into the plethora of ways that winemakers are trying to get the most out of wild yeasts.

Why is a wine bottle bearing the Certified Green seal⏤indicative of wines farmed according to LODI RULES (or its equivalent outside the Lodi appellation, CALIFORNIA RULES) for Sustainable Winegrowing⏤more important than ever?

For the first time, the Young Viticulturist of the Year and the Tonnellerie de Mercurey Young Winemaker of the Year will be announced on the same day, on 29th August at the Wine Industry Celebration dinner at Te Papa.

Scientists at Cornell and Carnegie Mellon universities are teaching a machine to prune grapevines like humans do.