Mar 4, 2025 — Gallo revives the defunct cult California Zinfandel brand, and founder Joel Peterson is on board

Mar 4, 2025 — The US is a major export market for Italian wine, valued at around €1.9bn annually and buying up almost a quarter (24%) of all Italian wine exports.

Mar 4, 2025 — The North American spirits sector is highly interconnected and, as a result, tariffs on Tequila and Canadian whiskey will harm U.S. spirits companies that have these products in their brand portfolios.

Mar 4, 2025 — 'Tariffs will disrupt an incredibly successful trading relationship.'

Mar 4, 2025 — She will drive innovative initiatives to achieve Bonterra's sustainability and regenerative objectives, and work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to amplify the company's social, economic, and environmental impact.

Mar 4, 2025 — Originally from England, Danny moved with his family to Sonoma in 1994, where he was introduced to the region's rich winemaking heritage. Coming from a family with deep agricultural roots, he developed a strong connection to the land.

Mar 4, 2025 — Owen joined DP&F in April 2016. Prior to joining the firm, Owen was a litigator specializing in wage and hour and traditional labor law in San Francisco for a national law firm.

Mar 4, 2025 — President Trump's effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.

Mar 4, 2025 — The spring forecast continues to point to a cooler and wetter period from northern California into the PNW and cool to near average and dry into southern California and the southwest. Breaking it down by months, the forecast hints at a mostly cool March and April and a warm May. Spring is on the horizon.

Mar 4, 2025 — 'We conducted a case study analysis of 87 vineyard blocks across California, representing diverse management histories. This study aims to shed light on the link between regenerative agriculture and soil health monitoring in the context of California winegrape production.'

Mar 4, 2025 — For decades, growers and vintners have been divided on the issue of whether organic farming is worth the cost, and even the cost itself is often a matter of conjecture. Little attention has been paid to what actual producers report, leading to heated and opinionated debates on the topic.

Mar 4, 2025 — • Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) adsorb volatile phenols from wine. • Adsorption models used to fit and describe the adsorption properties of MIPs. • MIPs can be regenerated and reused multiple times. • No detrimental effect on wine colour density and phenolic composition.

Mar 4, 2025 — Owners of vineyards in the Bekaa valley are focused more on Israeli air strikes than this year's vintage. How are these family-run businesses coping?

Mar 4, 2025 — The US expat population in Spain has soared by 25% over the last two years, reaching a new high of 50,000 residents.

Mar 4, 2025 — For those in the alcohol industry already wrestling with duty rates, sustainability concerns and the ever-tightening grip of regulation, here comes another corker: extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

Mar 4, 2025 — Luxury Scotch whisky, Chivas Regal, has announced leading Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc as its Global Brand Ambassador in a multiyear partnership, highlighting the brand's growing influence in modern sports culture. Throughout the collaboration, Chivas Regal and Charles will encourage fans to forge their own paths in redefining success. The partnership will celebrate the achievement of personal goals and creativity along the way, exploring Charles' passion points off the racetrack, with the first being music.

Mar 4, 2025 — Napa Valley-based Azur Associates, a leader in comprehensive fine-beverage consulting and M&A advisory, served as the exclusive M&A advisor for the McWilliams Family in the sale of their iconic Westside Road estate property to the Underwood Family of Young's Holding Inc.

Mar 4, 2025 — Mac Wine Lockers is excited to announce the opening of its new facility in downtown McMinnville, Oregon. Offering 24/7 access to climate-controlled wine storage, Mac Wine Lockers provides wine enthusiasts, collectors, and winemakers in the Willamette Valley with a safe and reliable solution to preserve and protect their personal wine collections.

Mar 4, 2025 — Talkhouse Encore, a line of refreshing, authentic and fruit-forward spirits-based canned seltzers, announces today its partnership with Union Beer Distributors. As one of the most respected and established distributors in the Northeast, Union Beer's extensive network and industry expertise position Talkhouse Encore for continued success in the competitive beverage market.

Mar 4, 2025 — President Donald Trump said that the U.S. will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Tuesday. Trump is also imposing an additional 10% tariff on imports from China... The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 800 points after Trump spoke. Trump is also imposing an additional 10% tariff on imports from China.

Mar 4, 2025 — Vinifera Wine Marketing, a California wine broker representing terroir-driven, family-owned wineries, is the new California representative for Bella Oaks, a Rutherford Bench estate with a storied history for producing one of Napa Valley's earliest and most noteworthy single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons. Vinifera Wine Marketing is launching its representation of Bella Oaks with the Bella Oaks Proprietary Red Wine and the Le Génie Cabernet Sauvignon.

Mar 4, 2025 — "One of the most bizarre things I have ever seen, the 3rd Circuit a day after issuing its opinion in Jean Paul Weg, LLC v. Director of New Jersey Division of Alcohol Control, vacated its opinion and judgment, ruling that it was issued in error.

Mar 3, 2025 — W Platform's technology captures the fermentation carbon dioxide and offers half a dozen different applications to recycle it in-house.

Mar 3, 2025 — The Spanish wine brand has used technology developed by Orchestra Scientific.

Mar 3, 2025 — Domaine Carneros is celebrating the completion of its first full year of microgrid operations with Schneider Electric, announcing today that in 2024 it was able to reduce its carbon emissions by 375 metric tons of CO2--equivalent to powering nearly 50 homes for a year and removing roughly 110 cars from the road--through the deployment of a microgrid.

Mar 3, 2025 — The McWilliams have known Chris Underwood, CEO of Young's Holdings, for many years through his family's ownership of Wilson Daniels, Arista's national marketing partner. Over the years they developed a close relationship and a shared affinity for the Russian River Valley and Westside Road.

Mar 3, 2025 — The Third Circuit affirmed that New Jersey laws related to shipping by retailers do not violate the dormant Commerce Clause "because striking down New Jersey's challenged regulations would shake the foundations of the unquestionably legitimate three-tiered system."

Mar 3, 2025 — HB 3433 would add glass wine bottles to Oregon's container deposit program, but the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative does not want to take on the additional material stream.

Mar 3, 2025 — "Lively, interactive, and led by some of the most exciting marketing minds in the business."

Mar 3, 2025 — Based in Napa Valley, Reich & Associates provides accounting and business services to a wide range of clients in the North Bay.