Champagne's Great Herbicide Divide // On-Premise Sales Flatten // Is Underground Cellar the next Premier Cru?

Champagne's u-turn on herbicide use is polarizing its growers and could have severe impacts on the region's future. Read the latest wine news & features on wine-searcher

On-premise spending in the 52 weeks ended Jan. 28 was up barely 1% versus a year ago at $14.8 billion, CGA by NIQ reported. Wine saw the weakest growth among beverage alcohol, and the solid 12% growth of sparkling wine sales was undercut by a drop of more than 1% among still wines.

Another wine retailer has suddenly gone out of business leaving many customers owed thousands of dollars worth of wine, with seemingly no way to get it.

It's all on you wineries. You can't count on your wholesalers.

Wondry Wines invites everyone, from novices to experts, to sip on a more approachable and versatile wine.

On Monday when I got into the office I was greeted with an alarming headline from WineBusiness.com, the wine trade's most-read publication: Are Direct to Consumer Wine Sales Falling off a Cliff? This headline was based on a report published...

Higher interest rates, variability in grape production, and longer-term trends in wine consumption have raised some concerns over vineyard valuations in Napa and Sonoma counties.

Direct-to-consumer (DtC) shipment value fell 8% versus a year ago to just under $472 million in March, according to Wine Business Analytics/Sovos ShipCompliant.

Update on AWRI’s smoke background levels database, now includes data from 765 grape samples and 732 wines, representing 21 varieties from more than 23 regions across Australia.

The West may be out of the woods in ensuring its water supply this year, but the water crisis is still very much alive, experts caution.

If further evidence were needed that demand for spirits in the US is slowing to a more sedate rate of growth, it has come from Rémy Cointreau.

Pernod Ricard’s Global Travel Retail profits are expected to be fully recovered to pre-Covid levels by the year’s end.

Vineyard owners in South Australia's Riverland are hitting the market as the wine industry feels the crush of a difficult vintage and China's tariffs on red wine.

All 46 lots of Masseto wines sourced direct from the Tuscan winery's 'Caveau' have found buyers and beaten estimates in a Sotheby's auction...

A bipartisan bill in the state Legislature would prohibit foreign governments from buying California agricultural land.

Winemakers in the Fleurie appellation in Beaujolais have endorsed a plan to formally apply for premier cru status for certain top vineyard areas...

Sonoma State University (SSU) students selected to present their research project, "Impact of Diversity on Perceived Brand Equity and Wine Quality," at the 37th Annual California State University Systemwide Student Research Competition.

Researchers aimed to understand the relationship between (poly)phenol consumption and cardiometabolic health.