Southern Glazer’s agrees to end retailer price disparities // Napa Winery Breaks New Ground With Ingredient Labels

Southern Glazer’s has agreed to stop offering its largest US retail customers significantly better wholesale prices than nearby independent stores, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Michael Honig's 2025 Sauvignon Blanc will be the first Napa wine to list ingredients on its label. Here's what it could mean for the industry.

A bill doubling state funds for Napa County’s year-round farmworker housing was signed into law by Gov. Newsom Wednesday, Sept. 30.

Cheap bottles have mostly meant bad, processed wines. The hope is that good wine from well-farmed grapes at a slightly higher price will fill a need.

The MD of Benchmark Drinks, the company behind Kylie Minogue and Elton John's namesake wine brands, has urged the wine industry to steer clear of established descriptor cues for brands below a certain price point.

Oregon’s winemaking centre is swelling with new talent – here are some of the buzziest new names to seek out.

Every day, Spring Mountain Vineyard CEO Peter Ekman drives from his home just north of the Golden Gate Bridge to work in St. Helena. Many of the vineyards he used to see on his way up have disappeared in the last two years, leaving barren brown fields in their place. 

In a busy week for wine, it emerges that Burgundy's famous – and expensive – reds are suffering falling sales.

Settlement with Southern Glazer's will help level the playing field for small businesses and facilitate consumer access to lower-priced wine and spirits at local retailers.

The Robinson Patman Act is an atrophied muscle of federal price regulatory scheme so this is a first step in its physical therapy rehabilitation for federal efforts to examine pricing disparities.

Why Rational Decisions So Often Produce Unexpected Results

Some truths don’t need discussion, except when they come with corollaries.

Williamson Act vineyards are taxed on income, not market value. As vineyard revenues fall, your property tax bill should follow—but only if the county has the right data.

On Friday afternoon at 1:15 p.m., Ray Signorello walked up to the courtyard next to the Napa County courthouse, where, in the next few minutes, his 49-year-old winery, Signorello Estate, was scheduled to be auctioned off.  

A sale of rare wines from the cellar of Bordeaux's Château Haut-Brion raised €3.4m (US$3.9m) last week in an "momentous" auction. 

In this week’s Talking Trade, EU buyers increased their purchased value by 140% week-on-week.

As Mount Etna's wines becomes ever more expensive, another volcanic wine region is bubbling away.

A ground-breaking test for white burgundy, confirmed by a subsequent vertical.

Tucked away in the Pyrenees on the Spanish frontier, a tiny Basque appellation in a forgotten corner of France is making wines as elemental as the land and seascape that shape them.