Napa County Farm Bureau looks at winery regulation costs // Champagne Harvest to Hit Historic Low

A study commissioned by the Napa County Farm Bureau says regulations account for 17.5% of total wine production costs.

This year's commercial yield in Champagne will be the second lowest this century, as weather plays havoc with the vines.

British Columbia's wine industry is balancing hope and trepidation amid new U.S. tariff threats and a long-awaited movement to break down interprovincial trade barriers.

Italy’s wine producers continue to struggle in export markets, with sales down again in the first four months of the year.

California’s efforts to stabilise its property insurance market are beginning to draw insurers back to the state, but winery owners in wildfire-prone regions say coverage remains difficult to obtain.

Machinery at Round Pond Estate began humming to life by mid-morning on Tuesday as 10 vineyard workers from Colinas Farming Company prepared for one last push.

Domaine Lafage has begun its earliest-ever harvest following an exceptionally early growing season in Roussillon.

Europe swelters in multiple heatwaves.

Baby Boomers have the lowest alcohol drinking rate of any generation at 71%, though it is up from 69% three years ago.

The two wine brands are the fastest-growing in dollar terms.

U.S. market demand for Loire sparkling and whites matched record highs in 2025.

An Oregon startup says its reusable bottles can cut carbon emissions by 85% and is working to grow consumer participation across the West Coast.

According to the Oregon Wine Board, Oregon’s wine and wine grape industries generated an estimated $8.49 billion in economic impact in 2024, while wine grapes had a crop value of $329.1 million, making vineyard pest management an important factor in protecting one of the state’s high-value agricultural sectors.

Growers learned in show and tell how an organic and biodynamic property in Napa manages biodiversity for healthier vines on a 280 acre property.

“How many new wholesalers do I have in the past year or so?” she counts out loud. “That’s what, nine or 10 states with new wholesalers? And there are still a couple of states where I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

For twenty years, getting found meant ranking on Google. Now a buyer or collector is just as likely to ask ChatGPT — and the winery it names wins a shortlist spot that has little to do with what’s in the glass. Here’s the six-step fix.

To be a wine merchant is to follow a calling and practice a craft that devotes itself to a single clientele and knows the palate of every true patron of their shop.

Some restaurants are leaning into handmade touches, as AI-generated food photos and flyers become commonplace

South Korean prosecutors sought a one-year jail term for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported.

A tribute to Franco Bernabei, the visionary enologist who quietly shaped Tuscany's greatest wines and mentored generations of winemakers.

Trixie, Sangiovese, and a Fast Ferrari By David Bolling We are doing a make-over for Valley of the Moon magazine – one of the publication’s regular features – and the makeover subject is Trixie, the perpetually pleasant if annoyingly passive ticket booth presence who sits 24/7 in stoic silence at the Marquee entrance to the