Chilean wines boom in Brazil as tariffs dampen US demand // Summer heat brings bumper wine harvest in the east

Chile's wine exports to its top market of Brazil are booming, helping to offset a decline in sales to United States partly due to tariffs, according to export data and industry experts.

East Anglia is ideal for growing grapes due to its warmer, drier climate, vineyards say.

Australian organic wine, beer, cider and spirits producers will benefit from their inclusion in an expanded Australia-Japan organics equivalence arrangement which came into effect yesterday.

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates CEO Shawn Conway is moving to take the helm at rival US wine group Far Niente Wine Estates.

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Never mind the harvest, for Italy the big wine issues are more about fraud, labor exploitation and bankruptcy. Read the latest wine news & opinion on wine-searcher

L’Eroica, Italy’s iconic most gruelling amateur cycle race, sets off in the early hours this Saturday morning with the first section on the famous Via Bianchi taking riders up past Castello di Brolio, home to Ricasoli. The story of how Barone Francesco Ricasoli bought back his family’s ancestral home and resurrected Italy’s oldest wine estate is also a classic feat of endurance, and one with, thankfully, a happy ending. Peter Dean met up with the Baron in his new tasting room, saw first-hand the monumental task undertaken to get the estate back on track, then with Sofia Ricasoli tasted through the latest 2022 vintages of the estate flagship Castello di Brolio and the three cru wines.

Grape plant bacteria might help mitigate smoke taint in wine by breaking down chemicals that evoke an ashy taste.

New laboratory experiments show that a bacterium that lives on grape plants can break down guaiacol—an unpleasant-tasting substance which ruins wines made from grapes exposed to wildfire smoke. Claudia Castro of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and colleagues present these findings in PLOS One.

Caroline Fiot will lead the winemaking team at Champagne Ruinart from January 2026, succeeding Frédéric Panaïotis, who died in a freediving accident earlier this year.

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A month after the Pickett fire in Napa cost damage of more than $65million, some wineries seem to be gearing up for litigation.

Newport Beach resident Patrick Briones, who worked as an assistant sales manager for wines at Albertsons, faces charges of commercial bribery and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

In 2024, Washington grape growers took advantage of a weather-induced shortage of grapes in British Columbia and a tax-free import exemption to send a sizable portion of their harvest north

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When it’s harvest time, Yakima Valley vineyards will see activity ranging from crews hand-picking grapes to general managers operating forklifts and processing machines. And everything in between.

Join me as I sit down with Esther Mobley, Senior Wine Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Esther shares her fascinating journey from an English major to a wine journalist, starting with a harvest internship in Napa Valley and subsequently working in Mendoza, Argentina. Her career path led her through Wine Enthusiast and Wine Spectator before landing at the Chronicle in 2015, where she has since become a prominent voice in wine journalism.

The story of Harlan Estate begins with H. William Harlan, Bill for short. Bill was born in Southern California in 1940 and as a teenager, he had three dreams: Sail around the world, have a family, and own a vineyard. As Bill grew older, his love for wine developed further as he witnessed the work going on in California to revive an industry that was almost entirely decimated by Prohibition. After graduating from college, Bill sailed around the world, achieving one of his dreams, before returning to California.