Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 998 by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, into law. This bill makes State Route 128 eligible to be designated as an official "Scenic Highway," which will increase local economic activity in the North Bay and parts of Northern California, and bring newfound appreciation to the beauty of the route.

A wildfire, apparently ignited by an off-road motorcycle, burned about 5,000 acres of grass and sagebrush northeast of Mattawa, Wash., on July 14.

Here is a practical lexicon that helps to describe the elusive characteristics of wine, without eliciting eye rolls and forehead slaps.

The logline: After failing spectacularly in Silicon Valley, a misguided entrepreneur moves one valley over into wine country and tries to turn a run-down vineyard into a success. Winos follows the antics of this ragtag group of employees who have no business running a winery.

I wouldn't call them motley, but there's a crew of winemakers I know who are notable rascals. Toga parties and burlesque shows aren't out of the question. Yet this lineup of mischief-makers, self-dubbed the Monday Standard, are upstanding members of the Sonoma community, a big percentage of the time, anyway … over 80 percent to be sure.

A blend of Zinfandel and Merlot sourced from Alexander Valley

As of July 1st Christian is now a District Manager for Winebow in San Francisco.

In this newly created role, she will be responsible for managing national account programs and initiatives with a focus on expansion in the on-premise channel.

Karen MacNeil and Workman Publishing announce that Karen MacNeil will begin work on the third edition of The Wine Bible.

CRISPR is often thought of as "molecular scissors" used for precision breeding to cut DNA so that a certain trait can be removed, replaced or edited, but Yiping Qi, assistant professor in Plant Science & Landscape Architecture at the University of Maryland, is looking far beyond these traditional applications in his latest publication in Nature Plants.

House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Chair Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio sent a letter Thursday to Naomi Earp, current Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on issues related to socially disadvantaged farmers.

Jascots has launched what it claims is the first English still wine in a can in response to customer demand for lightweight sustainable packaging and locally sourced wine.

Broadland Wineries has seen sales jump 11.6% to £70.6m in the 12 months to the end of March 2019 helped by fruit flavoured blends and mini wine bottles.

The Conseil Interprofessionnel Du Vin De Bordeaux (CIVB) has named Bernard Farges as its new president.

The renaissance of dry Chenin wines, together with dwindling sales of sweet wines, have driven investors in Quarts-de-Chaumes - the Loire's only Grand Cru appellation - to switch production from sweet to dry wines.

Jordan Winery's longstanding chief winemaker, Rob Davis, is to step down from his role on 1 July, which will be taken up by Maggie Kruse, who has worked alongside Davis for 13 years.

Designed to help these businesses increase sales of whites from Rueda, the initiative will see each participating store receive an exclusive promotional point-of-sale pack including: a branded apron, corkscrews, an ice bucket, neck tags, maps, posters and an information guide.

Martin McGowan has been named as Chapel Down's new sales director, having spent eight years working for Treasury Wine Estates' retail arm. McGowan has 15 years experience in the industry working for beer, wine and sprits brands, including Courvoisier, Stolichnaya, Wolfblass, Penfolds and Carlsberg.

This much-maligned vintage has some hidden gems that are real bargains, James Lawrence discovers.

With assistance from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office, inspectors from Permit Sonoma arrived at the Butler Avenue property just after 8:30 a.m. with an inspection warrant, said Maggie Fleming, spokeswoman for the Sonoma County Permit and Resource Management Department.

Wild lands Defense, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council have filed a complaint accusing the U.S. Forest Service of violating federal law by "categorically excluding" the Rowley Canyon Wildlife Enhancement Project from environmental analysis.

A small town Ohio girl, Angela Allison, without either wine training or appreciation was smitten on a trip to Napa Valley. After some wine education, she remianed smitten so she started a Northern California wine club, which is the genesis of her online subscription company, Wine Society, launched in 2018, with the motto, "Screw the Cork," and a focus on wine in cans. Today it's clear she was onto something.

In contrast to the soft, pliant rosé wines of Provence, you will find the more assertive rosé wines of Bardolino, Italy in the pale, rose-colored wine called Chiaretto.

If you're managing a winery in California, what is the best way to sell your wines? Quite simply, you need to bring attention your way, and if you're fortunate enough to receive a 90-point plus score in a major wine publication, that's a big help. But if you live by reviews, you die by reviews, so positive comments from the media are usually only a temporary fix.

When it comes to wine, Central New Yorkers like theirs on the dry side. At least that's what a new survey by Syracuse-based Drive Research says. Perhaps that result is a little surprising: Most national surveys show an American preference for sweet, or at least semi-sweet wine. And, or course, one of the top-selling wines produced in the nearby Finger Lakes is the sweet red Hazlitt Red Cat.

Liber Pater, one of the world's most (in)famous wineries, announced that its 2015 vintage will hit the shelves with a price tag of $34k per bottle. Loïc Pasquet, the winemaking wizard behind Liber Pater, is known for using ancient techniques such as cultivating ancient grape varietals and ditching oak barrels to age his wine in amphorae (which look like they could have been excavated from Pompeii).

Now, with more Americans embracing wellness as an existential ideal - replacing Instagram pictures of brimming wineglasses with photos of artisanal, lime-garnished mocktails - some moms say they feel more empowered to go against the grain. But can an aspirational, hashtaggable lifestyle trend really dry out the alcohol-saturated "wine-mom" culture?

As recently as a decade ago, merlot still ruled in Washington vineyards. In 2009, merlot was the state's No. 1 grape at 26,700 tons harvested that fall. In fact, merlot was the grape and the wine that helped put Washington on the world stage. The red variety from France's Bordeaux region and the round, supple resulting wines brought Washington a measure of fame.

Hundred Days promises to follow the "entire winemaking process." With the keys to a new winery, you'll need to make decisions about vines, soil, yeast, harvesting, bottling, sales, and even marketing.

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