Kenwood Vineyards shuts tasting room as Korbel owner buys back Sonoma property // EU draws a hard line on wine in global trade deals

Kenwood Vineyards, a longtime Sonoma Valley winery, has abruptly closed its tasting room, and a new property sale raises fresh questions about the brand’s future.

The EU is striking a careful balance in trade negotiations, opening the door to agricultural imports while defending wine.

The hospitality businesses set to succeed in the future, says Rubin, are those that can “combine commercial discipline with genuine wine intelligence”.

Movendi International and the World Health Organization (WHO) have become increasingly aligned in this effort.

Fine wine buyers under 40 are educated, motivated, and ready to spend.

Fastest-growing boxed wine brand in the U.S., Gratsi achieves sustained double-digit growth with 350,000 cases sold.

Constellation Brands has agreed to acquire the remaining stake in non-alcoholic beverage brand HopWtr.

Vinitaly 2026 further expands and diversifies its offer, aligning with emerging trends and strengthening integration between supply chains, content and business opportunities.

Decanter, the world’s leading wine media brand, part of the Future PLC stable, has appointed Jonathan Cristaldi, its longstanding Napa Valley correspondent, as Acting North America Regional Editor.

Reyes Beverage Group has named Brian Albenze as market president, overseeing the 11 markets that the company is set to acquire from RNDC.

Anishka Jelicich leaves Pernod Ricard to take over from New Zealand Winegrowers CEO Philip Gregan following his retirement. Jelicich will step into her new role from the end of July.

Let’s be under no illusions here – the ‘synergies’ they reference are employee numbers, first and foremost.

The global drinks industry could be primed for more consolidation, as top-five spirits players Pernod Ricard and Brown-Forman confirmed initial talks toward a potential merger.

High wine prices in US restaurants are turning off diners, and so are the types of wine on offer.

Certain champagne and cremant brands that were once wine menu staples are on the chopping block at restaurants and bars ​owned by New York-based Kent Hospitality Group, says wine director Kristen Goceljak. Tariffs have made them too expensive.

Unprecedented March heatwave among most anomalous ever observed, in any month, the American Southwest Well, it sure has been...quite a month.

A cutting-edge forecast system developed by NOAA, Colorado State University, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego is now fully operational and providing improved precipitation forecasts of landfalling atmospheric rivers in the Bay Area.

The secret to Yamhill Carlton’s most compelling Pinot Noir isn’t the winemaker. It’s 200-million-year-old ocean floor. Ken Wright has spent decades proving it.

There is a quiet revolution taking place in the vineyards of Penedès, the sprawling wine region that stretches from the Mediterranean coast to the foothills of Montserrat, just southwest of Barcelona.