The California Association of Winegrape Growers says the bill, AB 263, threatens a business with the loss of all licenses and authorizes a $10,000 penalty per employee for any retaliation or discrimination.

In Napa County, vintners and growers trade groups are concerned about a coalescing county climate action plan (countyofnapa.org/CAP) that includes specific numerical targets for greenhouse gas reduction.

Carlile Winery & Vineyards has outgrown its Santa Rosa custom-winemaking facility, so it is sort of swapping places with Windsor-based Robert Mueller Winery.

The Upper Haight smells like a lot of things. On any given day, the aroma of marijuana smoke, Muni exhaust, various forms of human waste and any combination thereof inevitably wafts through the air, delighting residents and tourists alike.

The "Delta Plan," adopted Thursday as state law by the Delta Stewardship Commission, is fatally flawed, says a nonprofit water group based in Santa Barbara.

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