Afternoon Brief, October 5th
Website Launches to Inform Public About Lawsuits: Hoopes Vineyards, Summit Lake Vineyards and Smith-Madrone Winery are suing Napa County over unconstitutional patterns and practices and have now launched saveoursmallwineries.org...
Afternoon Brief, September 29th
Ohio Launches Appeal Over Wine Shipping: The state of Ohio has requested the Supreme Court to take on another wine shipping case....
Afternoon Brief, January 13th
Jane Anson Publishes the First Wine Article Written by Artificial Intelligence Tool ChatGPT : Less than 24 hours ago, Jane Anson, wine writer and publisher of JaneAnson.com commissioned an article on how the new ChatGPT technology can be used within the fine wine industry...
Afternoon Brief, January 12th
Michael Martini, Third-Generation Napa Winemaker, Dies at Age 73: A "larger-than-life" character, Martini was diagnosed with cancer three weeks before his death...
Afternoon Brief, October 13th
California North Coast Wine Grape Harvest Eases Toward an Early Finish: A third drought-challenged wine grape season in a row is pretty much complete in the North Coast, helped to coast to an earlier finish by consistently warm fall days after an extraordinary hot and long late summer heat wave...
Afternoon Brief, August 24th
Tornado and Hail Devastate Famed Châteauneuf-du-Pape Vineyard: Vieux Télégraphe's Daniel Brunier and other top winemakers report that a violent August storm inflicted heavy damage on La Crau and other choice vineyards...
Million Trees Napa Launches with Plan to Improve the Long-Term Health of Napa County’s Forests
Tom Gamble, Jon-Mark Chappellet, Anna Chouteau and the Napa RCD are spearheading the countys latest non-profit environmental program (August 18, 2021; Oakville, Calif.)Tom Gamble, owner ofGamble Family Vineyards, in collaboration []
Afternoon Brief, August 18th
Unshackled Wines to Pay $75,000 to One Person Ready to Unshackle from the Status Quo: Unshackled, a wine brand founded with the purpose of challenging the conventions of luxury wine, is offering $75,000 to one person ready to break free from the day-to-day grind to pursue their dreams...
The Mill Keeper Launches Partnership with National Parks Conservation Association, Protecting America’s National Parks
The Mill Keeper, by Gamble Family Vineyards, and National Parks Conservation Association Celebrate a New Partnership Preserving our National Parks (August 9, 2022; Napa, Calif.)— As a brand built on […]
Afternoon Brief, July 1st
WSWA’s Sipsource Latest Channel Shifting Index (CSI) for On-Premise Closes in on Full Recovery: Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America’s (WSWA’s) SipSource released today the latest set of Channel Shifting Index (CSI) data that provides wine and spirits professionals access to channel performance data for wine and spirits categories/segments, price tiers, and U.S. regions that are easy to understand and relevant to successfully navigate the current environment...