Industry assessing after Washington wildfires // In Oregon, Alcohol Conflict Brews Again

The high-risk wildfire season experts predicted due to drought conditions across the Northwest has already arrived: In the past two weeks, fires have destroyed dozens of homes, disrupted communities and damaged orchards and vineyards in North Central Washington. 

Skeptics of Oregon’s beer and wine industry are jousting with its boosters, in the latest effort to influence how health officials characterize and manage the perils of alcohol.

Land prices across Bordeaux’s leading appellations have continued to slide as the region’s prolonged wine crisis deepens, with annual wine sales dropping below the symbolic threshold of three million hectolitres for the first time in modern history.

Restaurant wine pricing in the US has become “a particular pain point” for the category, with some venues now taking six-times markups on bottles, according to Gino Colangelo, founder and president of Colangelo & Partners, the New York-based wine PR agency.

Glyphosate was found in 19 of 20 wines and beers tested, with 81% of Americans showing recent exposure.

What can a private members’ club teach us about the future of fine wine?

Planning packaging strategies that minimize cost volatility

In the wake of the recently released “Sauvy B” from Trinchero Family Wine and Spirits and famed winemaker Joel Gott, Adam, Joanna, and Zach discuss whether wine-based RTDs, particularly those that proclaim their wine affiliations proudly, can serve as a bridge from RTDs to wine for younger drinkers.

Grapevine plants purchased from Costco stores in Northern California in April and May have been recalled after they were found to potentially host an invasive pest.

The iridescent green beetles native to Japan have become a growing menace in Italy, swarming through orchards and vineyards and leaving behind devastating lattice patterns in leaves that weaken the plants and reduce production.

As the world's tastes turn to lighter, more versatile wine styles, Sicily is going through a big change.

Winemakers in the Beaver State are harnessing their outstanding terroir to make some of the country's best sparkling wines.

Penfolds has suspended new orders for its flagship label for three months as inventories swell, prices slide and distributors struggle to make money.

Goedhuis Waddesdon have supercharge their reach out to younger demographic over the last two years, arguing that “there is appetite for these things among the younger generation”.

The town’s wine landscape always evolves at a brisk pace.

The journey of Justin Willett coincides with this rise of Santa Barbara. Willett is from the area though he did not come from a winemaking family.