Ciatti California Report - March 2026 // Memento Mori Co-Owner Purchases Napa's Historic Edge Hill

Green shoots: Is this a “transitional moment”?

Vintner Hayes Drumwright and winemaker Sam Kaplan are planning a new wine label after buying a historic Napa winery from Joel Gott.

A brush with medical professionals has left one wine lover unhappy at being pigeon-holed as an "alcohol user".

The wineries were purchased from the Otis family with an agreement signed March 10. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Solution-Based Conference Addresses AI, Distribution Disruption, Wine Club Retention, and the Future of Hospitality March 11, 2026.

You may have noticed that this newsletter has a new title — simply, “Chronicle Wine” — and with that, it also has a new author. That’s wine reporter Jess Lander.

Eric Asimov joined three other keynote speakers for the conference’s general session in Paso Robles. 

A Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Wine Symposium will be held in Prosser, Washington next month. The one-day event will take place April 28 at the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center.

More than 200 professionals from gather for the first time at an event combining training, dialogue, wine routes and gastronomic experiences.

Auction house Sotheby’s has released its Wine & Spirits Market Report for 2025, detailing an overall growth in auction sales and a shift towards younger buyers.

At the 2026 Premiere Napa Valley auction, The Vice debuted the first orange wine ever offered in the event’s history, marking a milestone for both the winery and Napa Valley’s evolving wine landscape.

With no storms in the forecast, conditions could be setting up for an early dry season and an earlier fire season — in the state’s interior, at least.

This year brings renewed prospects of early budburst, and more sleepless nights worrying about and combatting spring frosts in vineyards.

A year after Canadian provinces removed US wines from store shelves, full-year trade data reveal the steepest disruption in modern American wine export history.

The prohibition has rankled U.S. officials, reduced consumer choice and caused havoc for some in local alcohol-related industries.

This afternoon some of you joined me for a walk around the Hautvillers vineyards. We stayed very close to the village, yet as can be seen in the video, many vineyards have already been blank sprayed with glyphosate.

Dom Pérignon has released a Champagne from 2017, a harvest which yielded the prestige cuvée’s "smallest blend ever".

Grape Breeding for Extreme Cold North of the 56th Parallel in Canada

This week on our Vino Lingo segment, we feature Mike Martin, defining the term “duality”.