March, 25, 2018 Why is it becoming harder to buy wine online?

(WP) - In a day when we can buy almost anything online and have it shipped to our door — from shirts to cabbage to replacement motors for our basement freezers (to be installed DIY after watching a YouTube video), it is becoming harder to buy wine. Ask David Godolphin. The Concord, Mass., ...

March, 25, 2018 China may target American cherries, pistachios and sparkling wine

(CNNMoney) - China may target American fruit, wine and pork producers. Beijing has revealed a tentative list of 128 US exports that it may hit with tariffs to retaliate against President Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum. China's list raised the possibility of 15% tariffs on American cherries...

March, 22, 2018 Final Settlement on Winery Ammonia Death

(Wines&Vines) - Gibson Wine Co., an agricultural cooperative in Sanger, Calif. agreed to a settlement with federal agencies following the death of a winery worker in 2012. The government alleged that an accidental release of anhydrous ammonia violated the Clean Air Act, the Comprehensive Env...

March, 22, 2018 Total Wine & More Sharpens Focus on Winery Direct

(WB) -  Total Wine , the largest family owned wine retailer in the United States with 174 stores and roughly $1.4 billion in wine sales - the fourth largest wine retailer in the country after Costco, Albertsons/Safeway, and Kroger - is sharpening its focus on winery direct sales – with w...

March, 22, 2018 The Bordeaux Report

(Wine-Searcher) - As En Primeur begins, we look at how Bordeaux is maintaining its grip on the wine world. Bordeaux isn't getting any more affordable, nor is it likely to; but there are some bargains to be had by canny collectors, according to the people who make it and those who sell it. As ...

March, 22, 2018 Wine Labels Are Little White Lies With Enormous Implications

(VinePair) - To enjoy buying and drinking wine means we have to willfully succumb to certain fictions. We pretend, for instance, that we know what the juice inside the bottle will taste like. We do so based on visual clues from the words and art we see on the label, or if we previously tasted anoth...

March, 22, 2018 The world’s first coffee-infused wine comes out of Modesto, and we tried it

(Modbee) - Like lots of people, I enjoy a good cup of coffee in the morning and I’ll sometimes settle down with a nice glass of wine at night. But what if — and stay with me here — you didn’t have to choose between the two. What if you could have your coffee with your win...

March, 22, 2018 Monitoring shows Napa Valley sitting on a full groundwater basin

(NVR) - Napa County’s annual groundwater inspection finds monster storms in winter 2017 helped boost the supply in Napa Valley’s aquifer to the highest level in a decade. Water from the big rains soaked into what amounts to a subterranean reservoir. A study by Luhdorff & ...