The Duncan Family, owners of Silver Oak and Twomey Cellars, are pleased to announce the acquisition of Sausal Vineyard and Winery, one of the Alexander Valley's oldest and most admired boutique wineries and vineyard sites

If California wineries crush 4.1 million tons of grapes this fall as expected, it could make this year's harvest the largest since 2009, according to industry experts.

Silver Oak Cellars of Oakville has purchased Sausal Vineyard & Winery started nearly four decades ago in Sonoma County's Alexander Valley winegrape region north of Healdsburg.

California's grape crush is under way with an aura of optimism that transcends the past two seasons and could end up as one of the best years in a decade.

All agriculture producers expressed anxiety about AB 1313, a bill that would require field workers be paid overtime after eight hours of work in a day, as opposed to 10 hours as current law states. All producers said the weather-based nature of their industry makes it impossible to control the length of a workday.

Firefighters in Lake and Colusa counties turned the corner late Tuesday in their fight against two wind-whipped fires that burned 7,000 acres, establishing control lines that should keep the fires from spreading

The opinion, handed down Tuesday by US District Court Judge John G. Heyburn, II, marks a big win in a five-year push from the Food With Wine Collation, a consortium of large and small Kentucky retail grocery, supermarket and convenience stores owners

Former winery owner breaks silence in exclusive interview with Wines & Vines

When an insect pierces the surface of a plant to feed, much of the action takes place in the plant's interior. A device called the Electrical Penetration Graph (EPG) is a critical tool for peering into the process.

Katie Bray has joined Watershed Communications to take the helm of their growing Wine Division.

Gusmer Enterprises is pleased to announce the hiring of Gary Mosby as a Technical Sales Representative.

A French vineyard has become the first living thing to be classified as a historic monument by authorities.

Pesticide residue in Chinese red wine poses no threat to health, the country's Ministry of Health said.

France's farm and food exports, the world's fifth-biggest by value, rose for the first time in five months in June as demand for wine and spirits more than made up for falling grain shipments.

The new owners of Sonoma-based custom winery Crushpad are to ask customers to pay more to rescue their barrelled and bottled wines

New Zealand Wine Company shareholders approve Foley's move to take over brands and winery.

Owners of Amador County-based Renwood Winery announced plans for big changare "fermenting," where the new owners are launching new wines, packaging and a tasting room.

Barrel Oak Winery owner Brian Roeder filed a lawsuit Friday against the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors regarding its recently passed farm winery ordinance.

Canadians who buy wine in New York and other U.S. states face high taxes when they cross the border, and U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, wants to fix that.

About 1,500 people a day die of cancer, noted Jane Brovelli, executive director of the V Foundation Wine Celebration. Brovelli works in the organization's St. Helena office.

... to finance the company's pending acquisition of the 50% interest in Crown Imports LLC not already owned by the company.

Jarron Springer, president of the Tennessee Grocers & Convenience Store Association, said the ruling in Kentucky should serve as a "wake-up call to legislators that these state laws do need to change."

harvest is off to what many growers are describing as a normal year.

The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of white-coated, telegenic, A-list cooking talent that showed up, knives at the ready, to spoil us all with deliciousness

Plans for a minimum alcohol price could backfire and encourage retailers to sell more cheap alcohol rather than less, the Office of Fair Trading has warned

will now offer standard and private flight packages for guests who would like to experience the thrill of riding in their hot air balloon

Officials discussed the brewery after President Obama told some Iowa residents that he had some of its product stocked aboard the bus he's using for a three-day tour of the Hawkeye State.