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On Aug. 18, John Gibson made his second pick of the 2026 harvest — Vermentino from the Sierra Foothills — and trucked the grapes down to Legend Napa Valley, a custom crush winery set on a hilltop in Napa County’s American Canyon.

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Texas wine grape growers wrapped up an early, weather-battered 2026 harvest that Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts forecast to be an outstanding vintage.

Gundlach Bundschu, founded in 1858, making it one of California’s oldest wineries, has survived phylloxera, the 1906 earthquake, two fires, Prohibition and the COVID-19 pandemic. But the current wine crisis is proving to be its biggest test yet: On Wednesday, Gundlach Bundschu filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing more than $37 million in debt. 

The owner of a portfolio of Napa and Sonoma wineries just made a significant investment in wine amid falling consumption.

This past week, we saw two of the biggest stories yet in the wine industry’s ongoing crisis: Napa’s Signorello is facing foreclosure, something that rarely happens to wineries, and Gundlach Bundschu, one of California’s oldest wineries, has filed for bankruptcy. 

In the last twelve months, there have been over a half dozen winery acquisitions in Washington. Why?

California's recent winery upheavals aren't necessarily the bad news wine story that the media keep pushing.

Vinarchy has launched Vintelligence, an initiative aimed at wooing one million new consumers into wine by helping them pick bottles not by region, grape and vintage, but by occasion, taste and price.

The two-week campaign brings together more than 100 wine retailers across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Jersey City to highlight the variety, heritage, value, and excellence of Italian winemaking.

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U.S. adults are drinking less for the first time since the COVID pandemic, a new University of Southern California study shows, but drinking trends diverge by age: Gen Z and millennials are drinking less, while older adults aged 50-64 are drinking more. 

A Cornell-led study finds that wines made from disease-resistant grape varieties, long dismissed by traditionalists, appeal to consumers as much as those made from classic European grapes.

From Minnesota to New Jersey, seven proposed AVAs aim to distinguish emerging regions by climate, soils…

The dry conditions much of Minnesota saw this summer weren't ideal for most crops, but grapes have flourished.

The 2026 wine harvest continues to break records all over Europe, but not for the right reasons.

An exceptionally early and difficult 2026 harvest is forcing wine regions to rethink how they grow grapes in a changing climate.

A new edition of this classic wine reference is always exciting, and is a sort of audit of how the wine world has evolved over the last six or seven years.

A new documentary explores how eccentric winemaker Randall Grahm shaped California's Rhône Rangers movement, from Bonny Doon's rise to his current quest for terroir-driven wines.