Winery worker charged with starting 2025 Pickett Fire in Napa County // Ironstone Vineyards owners snap up California wine, drinks brands

The fire caused at least $56 million in winegrape losses, plus $1.7 million for other agricultural commodities and farm structures.

The Kautz family, which owns California's Ironstone Vineyards, has bought a collection of local wine and drinks brands.

Dr Erik Skovenborg takes a critical look at the UK’s 2016 alcohol guidelines, which include lower limits for men than most other guidelines.

Strategic Beverage Services acquires BevZero’s U.S. operations in Sonoma County and a Lodi winery to build a major California dealcoholization hub.

A Lodi winery is at the center of two separate transactions that will put a collection of California wine brands under new ownership while bringing expanded production, canning and dealcoholization

Wente Family Vineyards is considering the sale of at least 1,500 acres of land in and near the Livermore city limits.

At the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium in January, we presented an analysis of the volume of older-vintage bulk wine sitting on the market with no clear path to a sale. The warning signs to sellers were evident and we have been consistently describing the challenges to clients, but the general hope was that strategic pricing and patience might correct their imbalance.

New research finds no single right answer: staying the course, investing in shade technology and switching cultivars each pay off best under different heat scenarios.

Napa Valley prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges in the Pickett Fire investigation, siding with published reports that a worker had caused the blaze that burned 6,800 acres a year ago.

The ethereal Garnachas of Sierra de Gredos have brought new recognition to this Spanish winemaking region, but after wildfires recently swept through the region, can the momentum continue?

Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 917 on Thursday, expanding opportunities for small winemakers to sell wine and offer tastings at certified farmers' markets.

The US wine region has painstakingly built “one of the most transparent, place-driven systems in the world”, the executive director of Willamette Valley Wineries Association tells db, adding: “Oregon was never going to win on price!”

A group of Cognac winegrowers are taking the US distilling giant Sazerac to court over the alleged illegal ending of supply contracts.

During the 2025-26 term, the justices pondered the Founding Fathers’ drinking habits as they considered a law barring habitual drug users from possessing guns.

What do we know so far? Grenache is going to be light, and likely early. What we've harvested so far looks outstanding in terms of quality. And we're likely in for some long days the next two weeks, after which we might get a little break.

According to Champagne Drappier's winemaker, this year’s harvest is the earliest in the producer’s history and the healthiest since 1976.

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