JUNE 28, 2024 – Winners have been announced in the 17th annual Women’s International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWWSC). The competition, which took place June 10-12 in Santa Rosa, Calif., was founded on the premise that the majority of wine purchased for home consumption is bought by women. The IWWSC judging panels consist entirely of professional women in the wine and spirits industries — winemakers, distillers, marketers, buyers, sommeliers, educators and journalists.  “As always, the International Women’s Wine & Spirits Competition shined a spotlight on hundreds of deserving wines,” says Debra Del Fiorentino, owner of Wine Competitions Management & Production, which organizes and presents IWWSC. “And even though entry is open to all winemakers regardless of gender, I found it gratifying that six of this year’s sweepstakes wines were created by women. And our overall wine winner also was named Best Woman Winemaker

Available Stock Jarres, Barrels, Puncheons, and Oak Alternatives for Harvest 2022  Bouchard Cooperages, which has been supplying the North American wine industry for over 40 years, would like to announce the availability of stock sandstone jarres from Vin et Terre, barrels, and puncheons from its family of coopers that includes Billon, Damy, Maury, European Coopers, Hungary, and oak barrel alternatives from Canadell for harvest 2022. Products are currently available from Bouchard Cooperages’ Napa California and other North American warehouses and can be delivered in time for harvest 2022. Vin et Terre sandstone jarres: Bordeaux based Vin et Terre’s llow porosity (2%) jarres makes them ideal for fermenting and aging aromatic and textural whites as well as elegant, lifted bright reds. The different fluid dynamic characteristics of the Zen, Coralie and Ovo Couché jarres promote more or less movement and therefore texture in the finished wine. The stainless steel li

Miller Family Wine Company Launches New Non-Alcoholic Wine Brand in Collaboration with Celebrity Chef Cat Cora

January 3, 2022, Santa Maria, CA – Miller Family Wine Company is pleased to announce its newest wine venture, Hand on Heart – a collection of premium, non-alcoholic wines developed in collaboration with Iron Chef […]