BC winemaker plans interprovincial shipping on the heels of federal legislation; liquor commission executive calls move premature

US-based wine producer Evening Land Vineyards has purchased Château de Bligny in Bligny-lès-Beaune.

Scores of Sonoma and Mendocino county grape growers and other farmers packed a Mendocino County Superior Court room Thursday for a lawsuit challenging state frost protection rules for stretches of the Russian River watershed

Nonetheless, combination of low interest rates, improving market make timing good

Raymond Vineyards asked the commission to sign off on its plans to increase wine production from 750,000 gallons to 1.5 million gallons annually

Sonoma State Cellars 2010 Dry Creek Valley Cuvée is the culmination of a partnership between Kokomo Winery and the Wine MBA students of Sonoma State University.

Constellation Brands Inc., the world's largest wine seller, is doubling down on Corona as it looks to widen its lead as the top U.S. beer importer

Constellation Brands' investors toasted a milestone acquisition that firmly plants the alcoholic-beverage maker in a U.S. beer market

A Graton wine company announced an agreement Friday to sell its fast-growing Mark West pinot noir brand for $160 million to beverage giant Constellation Brands

"This merger is a key component to our New Zealand strategy."

For more than a decade she's been on counterfeit high alert, first at three auction houses and now at Chai Consulting, the San Francisco-based wine collection management firm she founded in 2005

Tesco came under fire from private investors over its lossmaking US business at its annual meeting on Friday

Philip Clarke, the chief executive of Tesco, has signalled that the company will abandon its American supermarket venture if it cannot make it work

The business recently installed a new process wastewater treatment center that processes the winery's wastewater into reusable clean water

Wineries' founder Konstantin Frank called 'vine from Ukraine' planted in the Finger Lakes to help start modern wine industry

now that the Oklahoma Supreme Court has OK'd an initiative petition that seeks voter approval of a plan to let large grocery stores in Oklahoma's largest counties sell wine

For almost 20 years, a growing number of Mâconnais producers have been approaching their viticulture and winemaking with a seriousness of purpose once reserved for more-exalted regions

Some 200 vineyards in the Salinas Valley produce 22 varieties of grapes but a lack of wineries sends the bulk of the grapes and potential jobs to tonier wine-growing areas to the north

But only an expert can open it -- The wine expert will travel to wherever the customer is to remove the ampoule from its glass casing and open the bottle using a specially-designed device

The Bordeaux third-growth is rumored to have been acquired for $212.5 million; in separate sales, parcels of La Croix-de-Gay and négociant DIVA-Bordeaux change hands

Decanter is to re-launch its Buying Guide section in a move which will see, for the first time, the magazine including the 100-point scale.

There wasn't as much rain as usual on the North Coast over the past 12 months, but because much of it fell in the spring, reservoirs are full and there is plenty of water for nearly all residents and agriculture

The ad shows a strikingly handsome spokesman dressed in firefighter's gear

And, she's still exploring, teaching others how to get into the business of wine compliance.

Napa conference focuses on organic growing

On Wednesday June 27, Ralph Cramer and his son Keith hosted an open house at their farm outside Mount Joy, Pa., for anyone interested in learning more about the advantages of Haygrove Tunnels, otherwise known as "hoop houses."

A state law signed in 2004 bans producing or selling the fatty goose or duck liver achieved by force feeding goes into effect.

A Rutherford winery's proposal to double production left two wine industry luminaries at odds last week before the Napa County Planning Commission, while raising questions about the future viability of the county's long-standing rule that Napa wine be made with 75 percent Napa grapes.