US imposes new 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products // Napa Water Lawsuit Expands Into Winery Planning Challenge

President Donald Trump unveiled 50% tariffs on a wide range of imports from Canada on Monday in response to ​what the U.S. administration called its discriminatory treatment of American-made cars, alcohol and dairy goods, threatening a new front in a global trade war.

Environmental group alleges county approvals ignored groundwater impacts, while officials continue to deny the sweeping allegations.

Introducing this year’s nine award winners, whose innovation, leadership, and advocacy are shaping the future of beverage.

The high-risk wildfire season experts predicted due to drought conditions across the Northwest has already arrived.

Land prices across Bordeaux’s leading appellations have continued to slide as the region’s prolonged wine crisis deepens, with annual wine sales dropping below the symbolic threshold of three million hectolitres for the first time in modern history.

Goedhuis Waddesdon has supercharged its reach to younger demographic over the last two years, arguing that “there is appetite for these things among the younger generation”.

U.S. importers paid an additional 31 billion euros ($35.46 billion) on goods from the European Union in 2025 compared with around 7 billion euros in 2024 before U.S. President Trump began imposing tariffs on other countries, a senior EU official said Monday.

Donald Trump’s tariffs have taught us an important lesson in the value of retaliation.

“Wine Institute has long advocated for wine to be left out of trade disputes. It is unfortunate that the unprecedented provincial bans on U.S. alcohol have drawn wine into a dispute unrelated to our community."

It seems that AI is penetrating all areas of society. Is it time for a machine to replace the wine critic?

It was a bold claim: a new tractor that would revolutionize modern agriculture and save American farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars. Albeit, it wasn’t just any tractor.

A bottle of Stags Leap 1973, the wine that won the Judgment of Paris fifty years ago and put California on the fine wine map, has achieved a new world record, selling for more than five times its low estimate.

Christie's has announced a world record auction price for a bottle of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon 'SLV' 1973, a Napa Valley star of the legendary 1976 Judgement of Paris tasting.

Six new master sommeliers have been crowned by the Court of Master Sommeliers (CMS), including first recipients from Mauritius, Bosnia and the Czech Republic following a rigorous two days of theory and tasting exams at Vienna’s Grand Hotel last month.

Lucie Pereyre de Nonancourt, Grand Siècle global ambassador and fourth-generation member of the Nonancourt family, owner of Champagne Laurent-Perrier, explains how they work together and the impact it is having to advance the careers, knowledge and confidence of the next generation of wine leaders.

Despite domestic sparkling wine declining 3.3% in volume overall in 2025, a handful of brands priced above $15 a bottle managed to post gains last year.

“Oregon Wine Industry Shows Signs of Contraction” was the headline that caught my eye on the YourOregonNews.com website.

One of the questions I’m asked most frequently is, “What’s new in Walla Walla?” The town’s wine landscape always evolves at a brisk pace.

During a discussion at London’s Taste Spain trade event on the fine wines from Spain, it was argued that the country’s most famous fizz, Cava, should change its name – at least for for its top tier cuvées.