Each month, Livermore Valley wine country highlights a grape varietal grown in our region. May's featured varietal is chardonnay, a green-skinned varietal used to produce white wines all over the globe.

Tickets are on sale now for this year's Downtown Art & Wine Tour, during which various venues south of Carrillo Street will open their doors and welcome revelers with food, drink, and art.

Elizabeth Huettinger has been hired as wine director at Addison, the Grand Del Mar resort's contemporary French restaurant.

These were custom-made blends for BottleRock that came in a Capri Sun-like pouch and contained the equivalent of two glasses. Concertgoers could choose between the Reverb Red and Whitenoise California white wine.

Regional ingredients inspire culinary creations as diverse as the wines.

Public Invited to Taste California's Top Rosé Wines on Saturday, June 8

As I mentioned here once before, the fad in California wines for more than a decade now has been the heavy emphasis on what I call MSG wines. No, that's not a designation of something to order in your favorite Chinese restaurant; rather, it refers to Rhone-style blends featuring Mourvedre-Syrah-Grenache.

Intemperance comes in many flavors, and SLO Down Wines has pairings for all of them. The California winemaker has rolled out three irreverent ads (from Harvest Films director Baker Smith and Arcade Edit's Paul Martinez and Dean Miyahira) about how well its Sexual Chocolate wine goes with group sex, horse role playing and bong rips, respectively.

The transaction included the 11-acre estate winery and vineyard property, tasting room and estate home.

Darius Anderson and his firm, Kenwood Investments, are paying to manage the organization. Anderson is the developer of a proposed 59-room hotel near the city Plaza that has become a flashpoint in the debate over hotels.

It takes more than a few lakes full of water to simply grow what we eat, and another sea-full to process it before we put into our mouths.

Rupert Murdoch, the founder and CEO of News Corporation is moving into the wine business, after purchasing a vineyard in Los Angeles.

Half a dozen mothers from Sebastopol and its countryside quickly rallied hundreds of people to their side to challenge Sonoma County's Paul Hobbs Winery.

As if the glassy-winged sharpshooter wasn't worry enough, here comes the zigzag leafhopper.

Mission is to Find and Implement Solutions for Paso Robles Groundwater

News Corp CEO purchases estate and winery in Los Angeles' Bel Air area; asking price was $29.5 million

California's Ridge Vineyards has thrown its weight behind full disclosure of ingredients on wine labels.

As the massive task of cleaning up after more than 100,000 rock fans got underway Monday in Napa, BottleRock organizers declared the event a success and said it will return on Mother's Day weekend next year, albeit for fewer days.

In 1986, an amnesty law gave legal status and a path to citizenship to unauthorized residents. Today's mass legalization would occur in a much different economic and demographic climate.

A new video featuring Sacramento blues singer Claudette Stone is the latest salvo being fired at Gov. Jerry Brown and his efforts to get twin water tunnels built beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.