Rob McMillan: Living in two worlds - Calif's massive snowpack driving fears of major farmland flooding - Napa wineries show steps to lessen wildfire risks

After a season of massive snowfall, snowpack in California’s southern Sierra Nevada is way above its normal level. It sits at a whopping 261 percent of its typical April 1 peak, and this week, it sailed past levels from the 1982-83 season, a benchmark year in the modern record for snow and for floods.

The high cost of insurance along with the costs for fire mitigation threaten winery cash flow, says a vintner.

Just what we need: another article about the rapid rise to prominence of artificial intelligence, and the content it is creating. For those of us who work in professional content generation, AI has been on our radar for some time. But I don’t think any of us would have predicted how rapid its recent emergence into the big time would have been.

There are a number of reasons why people do not drink alcohol, not just one.

Startups breathed a sigh of relief Sunday night when the Federal Reserve announced it would backstop Silicon Valley Bank deposits. Yet amid anxiety about the banking sector and the future of venture capital funding, this past week has been surprisingly busy.

It plans to file a motion to resume business while looking for buyers of its assets "in the coming days."

SVB Financial Group, the company that owned the failed Silicon Valley Bank until the US government took it over last week, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) abrupt collapse last week impacts more than just big tech companies. California’s wine industry is also in a state of uncertainty.

North Bay institutions are contacting customers — and some are getting new ones — after high-profile troubles at Silicon Valley Bank, with North Coast wine ties, and First Republic Bank.

The Prosecco DOC Consortium announced record shipments to the UK in 2022, importing 130 million bottles, a 3.5% increase on 2021...

Australian wineries seeking to enter the world’s largest wine market will have additional support following new investments from the South Australian Department for Trade and Investment, Wine Victoria and Wines of Western Australia into Wine Australia’s US Market Entry Program.

Napa's producers are moving their sustainable farming practices in the right direction, a leading climate activist and marine biologist told vintners and grapegrowers at a conference earlier this week.

A recent barrage of winter storms has helped rescue much of California from years of drought, but the state is bracing for possible floods and continued groundwater shortages in the months ahead. A…

Ireland’s new legislation to label alcohol like tobacco—which has been greenlighted by the EU—has spurred Italians to take the fight to Europe in defence of ...

In 2009, the Prosecco DOC was established in northeastern Italy, creating a dilemma in trade negotiations between Australia and the E.U.

ChatGPT is actually supposed to be better at writing short articles and blog posts, so I asked it to write this blog post on "How Chat GPT Can Assist Consumers in Buying Wine.'" The post it wrote is provided below. I think it actually did a reasonably good job! Your thoughts?

Chris O’Neill has launched Wildwood Wine, a Forestville-based wine company that donates 25% of the wine purchase price to selected Sonoma County nonprofits.

ROME — A visit to the doctor often begins with a stethoscope to assess the heart and lungs because before you treat someone, you need to know how they are. Similarly, to guarantee healthy soils for sustainable agriculture and food production, you first need to know their condition. Soils are the starting point of food […]