Tag: Lafite

The Best AVA Not on the Label: If you want some great Syrah, I'm going to tell you about a place that grows it. The wines are fascinating - complex and not fruit-driven - and a true product of their unique terroir. But the region might break the American Viticultural Area system...

Distinguished Vineyards & Wine Partners Acquires Two Napa Valley Wineries: Markham Vineyards and Textbook - Distinguished Vineyards & Wine Partners is excited to announce the acquisitions of St. Helena-based Markham Vineyards and Napa-based TEXTBOOK wines ...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Wine’s Most Inspiring People 2018: Defender of the Consumer Palate and Your Right to Choose Tim Hanni, one...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Wine Impact Study Designed to Impact Policy The $220 billion economic impact of the U.S. wine industry revealed...

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief   Trending Story: Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2017 Winning Wines Announced Sonoma County Harvest Fair is the largest regional wine competition...

Global Warming Creating New Cool Climate Regions: Climate change is widening the limits of the latitude or altitude at which wine grape growing is economically possible and creating new cool climate regions, says one expert working in the field...

Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines Still a Powerful Guide: Before Wine Spectator announced its top 100 wines of the year last week, the awarded wines were hardly setting Wine Searcher's database on fire. But interest has exploded as each of the top 10 wines was announced...

European Grapevine Moth Detected in Sonoma County: The Sonoma County Agricultural Commissioner, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), announces the detection of a single male European Grapevine Moth (EGVM, Lobesia botrana) in the western portion of Sonoma County, near Cazadero...

Former Winetasting Network (WTN) executive pleads guilty to fraud, tax charges: Martin Christopher Edwards, a former top executive of The Winetasting Network indicted nearly a year ago over nearly $900,000 diverted from the Napa company, has resurfaced and pleaded guilty, according to a statement from federal prosecutors Wednesday...

Trending Story: Convict-Made Wine To Hit New York City Restaurants Bottles of wine made by convicted murderers are to go on sale at some of New...

Trending Story: US Labels Leading Non-European Fine Wines Earlier this week (10 February) the first analysis of Liv-exs new multi-region index showed that Italian wines, particularly Gaja, were bucking...

Trending Story: The Most Avid U.S. Wine Cities Wine is the drink of choice in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, a new survey shows....