Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White snubs English wine, but it's a prejudice we all share, Oliver Styles suggests.

Celebrating the passion and spirit of the garagiste winemaker, the festival features over 60 of California's best micro-wineries, pouring over 200 wines made from over 30 different grape varieties.

Bruno Prats told the drinks business yesterday that this year's harvest was the earliest ever conducted in the Douro Valley, with picking at Prats + Symington starting on 28 August and ending on 21 September.

When pioneering winemaker Mike Benziger sold his family's 85-acre winery and estate in Glen Ellen in 2015, his future wasn't exactly clear. Though the multi-million dollar sales of Benziger Family Winery and Glen Ellen Wines were impressive, Benziger's life was in the balance.

The report says EPA's Region 10, which includes Idaho, Oregon and Washington, had stopped or slowed work at 49 Superfund sites.

Oregon county's don't have authority to regulate hemp production because it's considered a crop under land use laws.

The board of Westlands Water District votes to withdraw its participation from WaterFix project.

Registration now open for fall courses

In the top ten list, the number of domestic wineries represented by eight of the distributors totaled 3,769. The two distributors for which no number of wineries was provided are Johnson Brothers Liquor Company (#5) and Martignetti Companies (#8), but based on the number of wines represented at the eight other distributors, it appears less than half the number of domestic wineries are in the books of the top ten distributors; the vast majority of those wines are produced on the West Coast.

Starting Oct. 1, restaurant owners and other licensees ordering through the state's special liquor order (SLO) system will have to pay 100 percent up-front, and they won't be allowed to inspect an order when they pick it up at the state store. To fix an order or get their money back, a convoluted seven-step process is involved. The agency is implementing this new model on relatively short notice and at the beginning of the restaurant industry's busiest season.

Welcome to wine's new normal: extreme weather events. They influenced this year's harvest everywhere from Germany and France to Italy and Chile last spring and, at the last minute, Napa and Sonoma.

China's coastal city Xiamen in Fujian province has opened a sprawling 5,900-square-metre wine trade centre, which it hopes will allow the city to become the largest trading centre for imported wines in China within five years.

Andrea Mullineux is the co-owner and winemaker at Mullineux & Leeu Family Wines in South Africa's Swartland. A graduate at California UC Davis, Mullineux honed her skills in Napa Valley and Chateauneuf-du-Pape before returning to the Swartland with her husband Chris to open their winery in 2017.

Barrel blasting, cover crop management, hospitality and sales, getting up close to drone action in the vineyards, equipment repair - Napa area high schoolers did it all this summer.

At issue was the FBI agents' search of Kurniawan's house moments after he was arrested five and a half years ago. The agents had an arrest warrant in hand but not a search warrant. Yet they spent at least 15 minutes roaming the house, where they found extensive evidence of a wine-counterfeiting operation.

The move to get a better handle on tasting rooms and possibly limit their spread follows a burst in the number of new tasting facilities encircling the showcase plaza - growing from 13 five years ago to 23 today. Their proliferation has contributed to escalating rents for commercial spaces, making it difficult for other retailers to locate there, according to city planners. And it has raised concerns that the city is relying too much on tourism and wine tasting.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has welcomed Hush Heath's trade deal with Canada following news that its sparkling wine has achieved a listing with the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO.)

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will provisionally enter force on Thursday, eight years after negotiations begun. It will be the EU's first major trade deal since it began implementing its South Korea agreement in 2011.

Experts from 12 different countries will speak at the first of its kind event in Kelowna in October

Peju will donate a portion of online sales to relief efforts for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Worldwide MerlotMe Movement Engages Millions

Game developer Square Enix is offering a red and white Burgundy at $55 a pop.