How Napa and Sonoma Wineries Are Shifting Strategies for Millennial Tastes // Bordeaux Chateaux Accused of Retail Price Fixing as They Prepare for the 2025 En Primeur Campaign

This generation has surpassed boomers as the largest wine-drinking cohort and the industry is adjusting.

A British wine merchant says he's received “threatening” and “increasingly aggressive” emails from Bordeaux chateaux insisting that he raise the prices he's asking for their wines.

South Africa saw its wine export sales fell last year amid softening consumption and macroeconomic challenges.

Despite a recent overabundance of grapes, California could face a paradoxical shortage of wine this year.

During the 2025 California wine grape season, Saga Robotics increased treated acreage tenfold and expects to nearly triple it again in 2026.

Napa Valley's historic Trubody Ranch and vineyards have a new owner, and it's a name some might recognize.

French growers and winemakers have been out in force again as the cheap foreign wine issue raises its ugly head once more.

The wine industry is going through a tough phase. Now we can throw another log onto the fire, governments that purposefully want to destroy some of the industries smallest players.

2025 reviewed; 2026 opportunities

After several challenging years, many in the wine industry want to believe that 2026 is the metaphorical finish line, but as the modern consumer evolves, that endpoint may never become entirely fixed.

Winery inventories dip below long-term average from high peak, 2025 data show.

With European consumption falling, the bloc’s struggling wine sector has set its sights on India.

Travel to Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, and I imagine one of the last things you’d expect to find is a Frenchman making wine.

When I first entered into the so-called wine business in the fall of 1972, my second stop after Alsace was Bordeaux, then (still!) the center of the wine-drinking world in terms of prestige, long-term market profile, quality and to some degree quantity.

We’re definitely in the maelstrom of disaster convergence: geopolitical, economic, social, environmental. You name it.

Celebrated Australian winemaker Simon Hackett has died following a stroke at the age of 73.

A longtime Lake County resident who became a titan in the California wine industry for his innovation and human touch will be remembered in a special event at the end of this month.

New Zealand Winegrowers has announced it will be exhibiting at Wine Paris for the first time next month, ensuring the country’s winegrowing regions have “a strong presence” at the trade show.

Wineries, hotels, wine routes and tour operators specialising in this segment will participate.