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Family Wine Company Acquires BNA Wine Group’s Portfolio of Wines: Miller Family Wine Company, a division of the industry-leading Thornhill Companies, is pleased to announce their recent acquisition of BNA Wine Group’s portfolio of wines, including the popular Butternut brand...

Could a Tool to Combat Coronavirus Also Protect Grapevines from an Annual Threat?: Scientists and vintners are exploring using UV lights, now being employed in HVAC systems to reduce the threat of COVID-19, as a weapon against mildew...

How Winemakers Craft Clean Natural Wines: Why are some natural wines marked by volatile acidity, Brett, and mousiness, while others aren't? Alex Russan investigates...

PLACERVILLE, CA: As of October 12, 2020, the El Dorado County wine grape harvest marches forward with varieties at different elevations continuing to ripen. Most...

Wine's COVID Winners and Losers: As the world learns to live with coronavirus, what impact has it had on wine prices?...

Tariff Wars Cause Sharp Decline in Wine and Whisky Exports: Dozens of global drinks trade bodies have written to the European Union and US government demanding an end to their tariff war after exports of French, German, Italian and Spanish wine have fallen by 54% since last year...

Wine Country Starts Picking Up the Pieces: Winery and vineyard owners have been through hell this year. How will they recover?...

The Wine Industry Network (WIN) announced today that registration is open for the Wine & Weed Virtual Symposium, Fall 2020, to be broadcasted online...

An Estimated 80% of Napa Cabernet May Be Lost to Fire and Smoke: On the evening of Sept. 27, when winemaker Chris Howell saw flames on a ridge a mile away from Cain Vineyard and Winery, he and his wife Katie Lazar knew they had to leave...

Charles Krug Winery Hosts Basecamp for PG&E to Assist Firefight: When disaster strikes, you do what comes naturally. And when you’ve been around as a viable business since 1861, there’s some deep-rooted innate corporate wisdom that rises to the fore, ready to fight on to face another day...

The exceptional vintage celebrates Kuhlman Cellars’ sixth birthday. Stonewall, Texas – October 5, 2020 – Kuhlman Cellars is proud to release an exceptional bottle of...

Smoke Exposure: ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’ for Winegrape Buyers: Another year of catastrophic wildfires in California is once again raising concern about smoke exposure in winegrapes. President and CEO of Allied Grape Growers, Jeff Bitter said most vineyards are being harvested without analysis of smoke impact...

Grape and Bulk Market Activity Increases as Wineries Seek Ways to Supplement a Smaller, Smoke Plagued Vintage: The Lightning Complex, or LMU fire, came earlier this year than Sonoma and Napa had experienced in recent years, so many of the vineyards had hanging fruit. A few whites had been harvested and early ripening Pinot Noir but those harvests were in the minority...

Vineyards Help Protect Wine Country During Glass Fire: Napa County has been hit hard by wildfires but experts say the damage could have been worse. Wine country’s most precious crop may have prevented the fire from spreading...

Meadowood Resort, Newton, Burgess and Behrens Among Napa Wildfire’s Many Victims: The Glass Incident fires have consumed more than 42,500 acres, with historic wineries and vineyards in their paths...