California Wines’ Eureka! Event Brings Climate-Smart Winegrowing to New York // Market shows little appetite for vineyards

Nearly 250 New York and international trade guests sampled 185 wines from 10 California regions during Climate Week

Sale prices take a hit as wine country finds its way back into sheep and cattle pastures.

When they can stop hounding French politicians.

Devona has been acquired by Kelsey Itämeri. Devona founders John and Molly Abbott will stay on at the winery.

Columbia Distributing and Hayden Beverage Company have completed their previously announced strategic partnership in Idaho, with Columbia acquiring a minority stake in Hayden for an undisclosed sum.

The jury is out on the potential quality of the 2026 vintage, but one thing is clear: it was breathless.

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has announced it will sell Seppelt to Aaron Drummond, CEO and co-owner of respected Mornington Peninsula winery Stonier, and partners.

Bonner-based Planetary Design has acquired CapaBunga, a California wine country brand known for products designed to preserve wine and food.

In the four weeks ending September 12th, Wine remained below YA, with dollar sales declining -2.8% and volume down -4.5%. Category headwinds revolved around product availability slippage (23% of declines), promotional underperformance (10%), and consumer behavioral shifts (67%).

Nota Bene is a periodic Wine Economist column that briefly highlights stories that might otherwise escape attention.

Every $1 invested in California farms, yields $2.10 in statewide economic impact, a new report finds. Returns are substantial.

On the culture of bribery in wine wholesaling.

Ben Pridham of Pridham Viticulture in McLaren Vale, SA, offers a follow-up to his self-published piece ‘The escalator we built and won't use’, offered in the same spirit: not criticism, but an invitation to think differently about what comes next.

Jackson Family Wines achieved Regenerative Organic Certified® status across 663 acres and 15 estate vineyards—roughly doubling Napa Valley's total ROC™ acreage overnight.

Frost, wildfire, flooding, mudslides—all in six years. One Provence grower sold his business. Here's why robustness, not heat-tolerant vines, is the real answer.

The Eastern Winery Exposition has named Tara Good, founder and president of Trellis Collaborative, to develop and lead its Marketing and Direct-to-Consumer track for the 2027 conference, taking place March 9–11, 2027, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

"If I had to choose just one thing that truly excites me after attending this year's bigger-than-ever WineGB tasting, it would be the quality of the still wine and the clear emergence of regional identity.

Marc Millon reviews new book Italianity: The Culture of Italian Wine by Andrea Lonardi MW and Jessica Dupuy.

'Far too often I have reason to roll my eyes at a world that still lives and breathes in colonial terms,' writes fourth-generation Argentine vintner Adrianna Catena, who highlights ongoing Eurocentrism in wine – and the possible way forward.