January, 18, 2018 Ex-assistant to top Goldman exec fled to Rome after admitting wine theft, FBI says

(CNBC) - The former personal assistant to Goldman Sachs co-president David Solomon fled to Rome in November 2016, one day after privately admitting he took $1.2 million worth of rare wine from the executive's collection. A federal court judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday denied Nicolas De-Me...

January, 16, 2018 Doubleback Acquires Lefore Vineyard, its Fourth Estate Vineyard in Walla Walla Valley

(Winebusiness) - Continuing with the vision to remain solely focused on the Walla Walla Valley AVA, Doubleback, a Walla Walla winery founded by former NFL Quarterback and Walla Walla native, Drew Bledsoe, has acquired its fourth estate property, Lefore Vineyard. Lefore is located in Walla Wall...

January, 16, 2018 Wine Sales Gain 2% on Slow and Steady Growth

(Wines&Vines) - U.S. wine sales posted slower growth in 2017 than in 2016, but the steady pace of gains is helping wine edge out other forms of alcohol with consumers.  Sales of U.S. wine increased 2% to $42 billion in the 12 months through December 2017, market-research firm bw166 repo...

January, 16, 2018 Champagne Gives Thanks for a Vintage Crop

(Wine-searcher) - Growers and winemakers gather to celebrate another great vintage and to look to a greener future. Despite weather events that meant a tricky harvest last year, Champagne's growers and winemakers gathered last week to give thanks for what turned into a vintage crop. The Ch...

January, 16, 2018 The risk-takers: The realities of buying a vineyard Anne Krebiehl

(Decanter) - Giving up the daily grind to make wine in idyllic surroundings sounds like living the dream, but what are the realities? Anne Krebiehl MW meets several 'renegades' who halted other careers to pursue winemaking... They risked it all in order to make wine; they made sacrifices and str...

January, 16, 2018 How Martha Stewart Carefully Curates Her Wine Collection

(Forbes) - There’s no denying that Martha Stewart has been a trailblazer for decades. The magazine maven and media personality continues to inspire the masses with recipes, tips and tricks for everyday living, and of course, her enormous empire of businesses. But even Stewart needs a ...

January, 16, 2018 This Ex-Banker Has Wall Street-Sized Ambitions as a Wine Critic

(Bloomberg) - Wine is one of those rare industries in which one person’s opinion can make fortunes or break them. Credit Robert Parker. For three decades he dominated as the world’s most influential wine critic. He popularized the 100-point rating scale, and the scores in his ...

January, 14, 2018 After the fires, the road back to Napa and Sonoma counties

(LATimes) - I was driving California Highway 12 through the Napa-Sonoma wine country in mid-December when a low, dark cloud drifted into my peripheral vision. It was over a vineyard and seemed to be billowing — a scary sight after the October wildfires that killed at least 43 people and ...