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Garagiste Movement Gains Momentum: When the Garagiste Festival launched in 2011 in Paso Robles, few people were familiar with the word garagiste, an esoteric term for a small group of French renegade winemakers which had rarely, if ever, been used in association with American winemakers...

Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction Breaks Records with $4.5 Million Haul: A recreation of the 1915 World's Fair complete with a Model T Ford and a barbershop quartet created a colorful backdrop for a record-breaking afternoon of bidding at Sunday's Sonoma Harvest Wine Auction...

Researchers Develop a Method to Sniff Out Counterfeit Wine Without Opening the Bottle: How do you know if a wine is authentic without opening the bottle? A team of researchers at U.C. Irvine believes they have developed a valuable new tool in the battle against counterfeit wines...

Riedel Legal Threat to Hosemaster No Laughing Matter: Feeling safely protected by US libel law, Ron Washam has insulted people in the wine industry for years on his Hosemaster of Wine blog

Lake County fire grows to 15,000 acres: A wildfire in Lake County ballooned Friday to 18,000 acres and spread into neighboring Yolo County, as firefighters struggled to gain the upper hand from the ground and air and called in reinforcements from across the state

The face of wine is changing: how traditional agencies are rethinking their strategies: Supermarkets’ recent headline-grabbing range culls are just the latest in a long series of changes that have rocked the trade and forced suppliers to take a hard look at the way they do business

Innovations in grape growing technology apply across the industry: Peter Hackworth, Executive Officer of the Wine Grape Council of South Australia, says today's farmers are no different - and they deserve to be recognised – so he has established the Vinnovation Award.

Strategic analysis of the next five years for the Australian wine sector: Australia’s $4.2 billion wine sector’s recent growth has been promising, and its future will be the subject of robust discussion when the country’s leading wine grape growers, winemakers, suppliers and marketers meet for a landmark three-day event in Adelaide in July.

Breach at Winery Card Processor Missing Link: Missing Link Networks Inc., a credit card processor and point-of-sale vendor that serves a number of wineries in Northern California and elsewhere, disclosed today that a breach of its networks exposed card data for transactions it processed in the month of April 2015...

A Packed Party of Top California Winemakers and Magnums of Their Best Wines: Where can you find some of California’s biggest movers and shakers and a world-class selection of magnums all under the same roof?

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: A California winery claims HBO’s "Game of Thrones" is infringing on its rights The three-eyed raven is now also the...

Gallo expands vineyard holdings in Napa Valley: E&J Gallo Winery announced Tuesday that it has purchased 642 acres in the Napa Valley as the nations No. 1 vintner makes further inroads into the North Coast wine industry...

El Niño will be substantial, warn Australian scientists: Australian scientists on Tuesday forecast a "substantial" El Niño weather phenomenon for 2015, potentially spelling deadly and costly climate extremes, after officially declaring its onset in the tropical Pacific...

Napa city planners ease up on 75% local-grape rule for wineries in industrial zones: A board member for the Commons, formerly Napa Valley Corporate Park, argued for the change, saying the clash of city and county rules has driven winemakers south to industrial sites near unincorporated Napa County Airport...

Majestic Wine to buy online retailer Naked Wines: Majestic Wine is to buy online rival Naked Wines for 70m GBP in a deal that puts the web retailer's founder, Rowan Gormley, in charge...