Afternoon Brief: Paris Cafés Caught Cheating Tourists with Cheap Wine
Restaurants and bistros in the French capital are serving lower-quality wine by the glass while charging for premium labels, an investigation has found...
Afternoon Brief: Los Angeles Wildfires Devastated the Local Wine Industry. What's Next?
Wine businesses are navigating the effects of the Los Angeles fires, spearheading relief efforts, and forging a path forward...
Afternoon Brief: What a Century-Old Grapevine Reveals About a Disease That Plagues Wine Country
In a new study, researchers identified a 120-year old grapevine cutting in the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity that still contained traces of X. fastidiosa DNA from the early 1900s...
Afternoon Brief, December 7th
Why Napa Green’s Glyphosate Ban Is Such a Big Deal: Last month, Napa Green, a sustainable wine-growing certification for Napa Valley vineyards, announced that members must phase out the use of the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in popular weed killer Roundup...
Afternoon Brief, July 24th
Livermore Winery Owner Dies After Car Crash: A two-car collision Friday afternoon resulted in the death of a 59-year-old man, the Livermore Police Department said. The driver was identified as Mitchell Katz, the Alameda County Coroner’s Office confirmed to KRON4. Katz was the owner of Mitchell Katz Winery in Livermore...
Afternoon Brief, December 27th
It Was the Wine World's Buzziest Online Club. Can It Recover from Bankruptcy?: It was a fast, improbable success story: A buzzy new wine-tech business co-founded by a burgeoning celebrity sommelier offered access to rare, hard-to-find bottles at fair prices. It was one of the two best wine clubs you could join, according to Wirecutter...