Afternoon Brief, May 24th
Wine Hits Back at Negative Headlines: The Wine Market Council is leading the charge against pessimistic wine stories about the US market...
Afternoon Brief, March 15th
Dom Perignon, Expensive Wines Found in Search Tied to Retail Thefts in North San Diego County: Photos released by investigators showed several bottles of Dom Perignon, Inglenook and Caymus wines, each of which retail for around $300...
Afternoon Brief, May 17th
Napa Valley and Sonoma Valley Vintner and Investor Brion Wise Acquires Mark Herold Wines: Wise, proprietor of BRION and B. Wise Vineyards, today announces the acquisition of Mark Herold Wines...
Afternoon Brief, May 5th
Big Duckhorn Winery Growth Plans Win Napa County Approval: Duckhorn Vineyards winery near St. Helena has secured Napa County approvals to construct more buildings, make more wine and host more guests...
Afternoon Brief, April 28th
Traditional Method and Charmat Do Not Produce Different Sparkling Wines: Researchers from the University of Rio Grande in Brazil claim that secondary fermentation produces the same wines, irrespective of whether they are produced using the traditional method, in bottles, or in closed tanks, using the Charmat technique...
Afternoon Brief: Research Shows Prosecco Is a Grape Variety, Not a Geographical Region
The culmination of five years research by Professor of Law Mark Davison at the Faculty of Law at Monash University in conjunction with Macquarie University, the study counters the European Unions (EU) attempts to limit the use of the term Prosecco...
Afternoon Brief, January 27th
UWGS Recap: Back to Business: The 2023 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium concluded January 26 and, judging by the comments we received on the trade show floor, it's back, baby!...
Afternoon Brief, December 7th
Illegal Alcohol Shipping Has Become a Serious Problem: Illegal alcohol shipping in the U.S. has grown into a significant and dangerous problem. Ecommerce exploded during the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing people to easily buy alcohol online from numerous platforms...
Afternoon Brief, December 2nd
‘Really a Cause for Alarm’: Wineries Urged to Go Digital as Tasting Room Traffic Declines: Optimism that post-pandemic consumers would return to winery tasting rooms after they reopened has turned to concern as visit numbers decline, according to experts at the tenth annual WIN Expo on Thursday...
Afternoon Brief, November 18th
Flooding in South-East Australia Set to Hit Wine Production: Wine producers in south-east Australia have been taking stock of flood damage and some fear significantly reduced yields, although the total proportion of vineyards affected remains unclear...