Pindar Vineyards, a New York-based family-run wine estate, is planning to sell its business for $65m.

The liquor issue in Pennsylvania looked like a shoe-in for Republicans this year.

Expands distribution footprint into New York, New Jersey and Connecticut

The Pindar Vineyards empire of more than 500 acres is listed by its Peconic address, not by name, at the real estate site Loopnet.com, under the description, "the largest vineyard on the North Fork of Long Island."

Vermont's entire population is just 626,000, and the state is better known for maple syrup and beer than wine. So why are more and more wine-world luminaries heading here for dinners and meet and greets? And how do their sometimes-obscure wines make it to the North Country, far from the urban markets where they're more familiar?

Pindar Vineyards, Long Island's largest wine producer and one of the pioneers of the North Fork wine region, is considering the prospect of a sale -- if the right buyer comes along with $65 million, according to a family member and the company's real estate agent.

Cronut scalpers like the Bird brothers are just the latest sign that the pastry has spawned a full-on frenzy in Manhattan and elsewhere.

Even if the Senate votes on a bill, could the House and governor's office agree on a proposal within a handful of days?

When wine sales in Greece dropped 60 percent in two years, winemakers began sending some of their best wines abroad, wines that local Greeks would have lapped up in the past.

The chairman of the Pennsylvania state senate committee vetting liquor privatization legislation says he expects to offer his own bill in about two weeks, now that his panel has held the last of three hearings on the issue.

After a final hearing on privatizing state liquor sales, the chairman of a key Senate committee said Tuesday he will unveil a plan that departs from the House proposal with less than two weeks to negotiate differences before Gov. Tom Corbett's requested deadline.

"Sports drinks, energy drinks and fruit-flavored drinks sometimes sound like they're good for us, but they are contributing to the obesity epidemic just as much as sugary soft-drinks," Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said in a statement.

Until as the Authority issues further guidelines, licensees would be wise to examine every proposed agreement with a third party advertiser to see if it compiles with the law both on paper and in practice. The Authority will view as evidence of availing any arrangement that shifts the risks and rewards related to the sale from the licensee to a non-licensed third person

The story of the region's burgeoning wine industry added a new chapter with the first wine to come out of Victory View Vineyards. Their business venture wouldn't be possible without relatively recent breakthroughs by grape researchers, primarily at the University of Minnesota. Experts have been able to breed new strains both good for making wine and hardy enough to withstand northern New York weather.

Effective Tuesday, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission adopted a new review process designed to speed the transfer of liquor licenses between buyers and sellers.

Kristi Pasieka and Nicole E. Ruglio filed a class-action lawsuit last Friday in Mercer County Superior Court accusing 13 of the chain restaurant's New Jersey locations of serving customers less-expensive liquor disguised as top-shelf brands.

Social media and wine connoisseur Gary Vaynerchuk has partnered with WunWun to deliver bottles of wine on demand across New York City, just for today.

Popular attraction at Sands event center expands to three days with new Burger and Beer Bash

Cayuga Lake's newest winery will hold its ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon next Friday, May 31

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book: Secretly pour some cheap whiskey into a bottle that once held high-grade liquor and charge customers top dollar for a glass