Afternoon Brief: Questions Raised over Napa Fire
The Pickett Fire is still burning in northern Napa County, but even before it is fully extinguished, there is some intrigue about how it may have started...
Afternoon Brief: California Grapegrowers Race to Beat the Heat
Trucks full of wine grapes clogged roads all over northern California wine country this week as wineries raced to get their precious cargo into tanks before a brutal heatwave shriveled them to raisins...
Afternoon Brief, February 8th
Napa County Puts Hoopes Winery Leader in Witness Stand: Napa County's attorneys put Lindsay Hoopes of Hoopes Family Vineyard in the witness stand to question her about alleged winery rule violations...
Afternoon Brief, May 8th
Willamette Valley Wineries Hire Fire Litigation Lawyers to Investigate Suing Pacific Power for Grape and Wine Losses Arising from the 2020 Labor Day Fires: Today Willamette Valley Vineyards, Brigadoon Wine Co., Samuel Robert Winery, Retraite, LLC (fka Lingua Franca – LS Vineyards Holdings, LLC), and Elk Cove Vineyards Inc. announced they have hired a well-known legal team to investigate filing suit against Pacific Power, a division of PacifiCorp, in the Oregon state circuit courts...
Afternoon Brief, November 30th
California Wines Pour Jobs and Dollars into Economy: The California wine and winegrape sector and allied businesses deliver a total economic contribution of $73 billion annually to the state’s economy and $170.5 billion annually to the U.S. economy, according to a new report commissioned by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG)...
Afternoon Brief, September 12th
Why Wine Country Is No Longer ‘for Regular People,’ According to Some Bay Area Residents: Priced out. Astronomical tasting fees. Rip-off. These were some of the sentiments shared by Bay Area residents after The Chronicle reported last week that it has been an unusually slow summer in Wine Country...
Cline Family Cellars Announces Key Management Appointments
Hilary Cline promoted to Vice President of Marketing and Direct to Consumer Sales, Steve Jannicelli joins Senior Management Team as Chief Financial Officer September 9th – SONOMA, Calif. — Cline […]
Afternoon Brief, June 7th
Colorado Rising: Behind the World’s First High Desert Hybrid Wine Region: Colorado has been producing locally grown and bottled wine since 1890, but it’s just now reaching that adolescent stage of development, in which it establishes who, precisely, it is — and how it relates to the rest of the world...
Afternoon Brief, April 4th
Late Frost Ices Over French Vineyards, Threatens Fruit Crops: Temperature swing is threatening fruit crops across multiple countries...
Cline Family Cellars Celebrates 40 Years
April 4th – (SONOMA COUNTY, CA) — Cline Family Cellars, a family-owned and operated winery based in the Carneros wine appellation of Sonoma County, California, is proud to announce its […]