The secretive strategy behind Napa Valley's priciest wines // Australian Vintage terminates CEO Craig Garvin’s contract

If you bought a bottle of Robert Craig Winery's 2019 Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon directly from the winery, you paid $118.

AVL said the Board has terminated Garvin’s employment for “engaging in conduct that, in its view, displayed a lack of judgement and was inconsistent with the values of the company”.

Overall wine decreased 3.4% in 2023 to 336.6 million 9-liter cases, according to preliminary figures from the Beverage Information Group.

These platforms facilitate digital kleptoparasitism.

News about the 2020-22 drought took a back seat in 2023, after a year of heavy rainfall, muting the wine industry's former focus.

There are more changes in the top team at global drinks giant Diageo with Lavanya Chandrashekar stepping down as CFO.

Deirdre Mahlan has been appointed President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of Duckhorn Portfolio, Inc.

New Zealand-born lawyer John Barker took over the reins of the OIV – International Organisation  of Vine and Wine early this year.

Web-based beverage retailers continue to see growth as consumers turn to the Internet for convenient shopping experiences.

With so many different wines to choose from, many consumers have gravitated towards this particular rosé.

Bordeaux drinkers, collectors, and merchants have been frustrated by en primeur pricing that’s been so high it takes away any advantage for buying the wine before it’s available to drink or store. 

Final sales figures for the auction, which featured 60 lots, were expected to be released this week.  

Right now, there’s a lot of sex in the vineyards. Strictly between the vines of course.

Professor Michael Summerfield makes the case for the great English evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin's profound influence on wine.

Yakima River basin irrigators with junior water rights will receive only 54% of normal water supplies, the worst May outlook since the historic 2015 drought, the U.S. Bureau Bureau of Reclamation projected.

For more than a century, parts of California have been using groundwater faster than the resource can be replenished.

In the right hands, there’s diversity and much to love about grüner veltliner, the signature Austrian white grape, and other local drops.

Colares is a small appellation in the westernmost part of mainland Portugal.

They never ask: "Hey, why are all these people arranging for illegal shipments?"

I commenced culling through my office bookshelves (organized chaos!) packing up a large chunk of my wine library books.

Hospice du Rhône came to Walla Walla last month. Eight participants give their thoughts on the event, its significance, and the impact.

We found the latest and greatest in new products at the 2024 editions of the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium and Eastern Winery Exposition.