March, 12, 2018 WINE PRICES ‘COULD RISE BY UP TO 30%’

(TDB) - The price of supermarket staples like Prosecco, Pinot Grigio and entry-level Spanish reds could rise by up to 30% due to the frost-ravaged 2017 harvest. According to The Guardian, shoppers may have to pay up to 30% more for popular wines like Pinot Grigio and Prosecco, but this all ...

March, 12, 2018 Healdsburg’s Banshee Wines finds peace from deal with billionaire wine owner Bill Foley

(PD) - Baron Ziegler was at a crossroads a few years ago. His Healdsburg-based Banshee Wines had gained a significant following — largely among younger customers — with a premium pinot noir priced well below other competitors. And he had the hippest tasting room in the city, with a G...

March, 12, 2018 Troubling Implications of the New Wine Tax Law

(Csa-compliance) - Late last Friday afternoon (March 2) TTB released further guidance on the recently enacted Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act. The new guidance finally answered some large and pressing questions about how the law will be implemented, and revealed some very troubling ...

March, 12, 2018 Judge Rules Napa County Violated No California Environmental Laws In Approving Walt Ranch

(WBM) - A judge has ruled Napa County violated no California environmental laws when it approved a hillside vineyard development east of Napa. Environmentalist groups and a subdivision filed the lawsuits in January 2017, about a month after Napa County approved the development of 209 acres ...

March, 12, 2018 Battle on for soul – and future – of America’s Napa Wine Country

(SCMP) - In February a Napa County Superior Court judge handed down a tentative ruling favouring a controversial vineyard project on Atlas Peak, Walt Ranch, that would cut down 14,000 mature trees – some of them 300 years old. Locals have been worried about erosion, traffic, and the irriga...

February, 28, 2018 Wine.com Calls for Industry Support of Three-Tier Ecommerce at Eighth Annual Growth Summit

/PRNewswire/ -- Wine.com, the nation's leading online wine retailer, hosted its eighth annual Industry Growth Summit last Wednesday, where it highlighted the role Three-Tier Ecommerce can play in driving wine industry growth, and issued a call for increased collaboration with its trade partne...

February, 28, 2018 Wine Country Rises from the Ashes

(Wine-Searcher) - The wine industry unites to ensure that worker accommodation doesn't disappear in the aftermath of October's blaze. The Napa and Sonoma fire departments did an admirable job of evacuating and saving lives as the fires raged for a week this past October. Very few wineries were a...

February, 28, 2018 Lessons Learned in the Texas Wine Industry

(Wines&Vines) - When Meredith Eaton and her husband, George, opened Firelight Vineyards, a small winery in the tiny town of Valley View, Texas, in 2015, she described it as a “leap of faith.”  Located on the sleepy plaza of a town with around 750 residents, one might think t...