Wine Industry News

  • Napa Valley's Colgin Cellars Flees the Cult and Becomes a Classic

    (WSJ) - THE VIEW FROM Colgin IX Estate, high atop a hill, encompassing Lake Hennessey and Napa Valley, bounded by the Mayacamas Mountains to the west, is one of the more awe-inspiring vistas in the region. As I looked out across the valley this past summer while tasting recent Colgin vintages wit...
  • Lake County: Training for Vineyard Supervisors en Español

    (Wines&Vines) - As many as 98% of California farmworkers are Spanish speakers, and most of their foremen and supervisors have risen from the ranks. Although supervisors are more likely to be bilingual, a large percentage of them remain most comfortable communicating in their native language. To...
  • Sonoma Valley nursery boosts grapevine output to 6 million

    (NBBJ) - Amid heightened demand for new grapevines for vineyard redevelopment and new plantings in recent years, Novavine has boosted its annual nursery output to 6 million vines with the opening of its largest greenhouse to date. Santa Rosa-based Novavine (707-539-5678, novavine.com) on Friday un...
  • France: "Charbonnay": The Coal Miners' Legacy

    (Wine-Searcher) - In a former coal-mining town near the port of Calais, a small group of winemakers are trying their hand at growing grapes on a slag heap: a mountain of waste rock accumulated during the town’s mining days. Not only are they trying to make wine from the once-barren hill: the...
  • Napa Valley: How a handful of Mountain men made wine history

    (PD) - Shortly after the Napa Valley appellation was created in 1981, a handful of Howell Mountain vintners sat around Mike Beatty’s kitchen table over a topography map and a few of bottles of wine to draw up their own sub-appellation. “Picture a farm kitchen, an old table and four or ...
  • There’s no global wine shortage

    (Reuters) - Have you heard about the global wine shortage? Of course you have: it’s been covered in pretty much every media outlet imaginable, but Roberto Ferdman’s piece for Quartz (“A global wine shortage could soon be upon us”) was one of the first, and also one of the mo...
  • French winemaker fined for smuggling illegal pesticides

    (Decanter) - A winemaker in southern France has narrowly escaped prison after being found guilty of smuggling banned pesticides into the country. The winemaker, from the Aude region of Languedoc-Roussillon, was this week fined EUR1,000 and given a two-month suspended prison sentence. During a r...
  • As climate warms, no sour grapes in France

    (Aljazeera) - On a small parcel of land tucked into the gently undulating landscape of the Loire Valley, a region in central France dotted with historic villages, sprawling castles and fruit orchards, François Blanchard and a crew of friends, neighbors and fellow winemakers pick organic grap...

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