January, 08, 2018 Wine trends for 2018: More cans, boxes and kegs, for starters

(WP) - This is the time of year when wine writers, exhausted from writing holiday bottle and gift recommendations — and from consuming copious amounts of champagne during our research — slump forward and peer into our navels to predict trends for the coming year. This is half predi...

January, 08, 2018 Wine mogul Dave Phinney poised to transform Mare Island with distillery

(SFChronicle) - If Dave Phinney has his way,  Mare Island , once the largest naval base west of the Mississippi River, may soon become the Bay Area’s newest adult playground. Phinney is a winemaker — more accurately, a wine entrepreneur. He created mega-hit wine brands l...

January, 08, 2018 Were Grapevines Ready for Bomb Cyclone?

(Wines&Vines) - Weather forecasters are predicting more severe cold weather today across the Upper Midwest, the East and into New England, with low temperatures dipping into negative numbers in many areas. It’s now been almost two weeks of unremitting bone-chilling weather in these region...

January, 08, 2018 Plans begin to rebuild Signorello

(Decanter) - The owners of Signorello Estate in Napa Valley have started plans for rebuilding after the winery was destroyed in the California fires in September.  Ray Signorello Jr has hired Taylor Lombardo Architects and Nordby Construction Company to design and rebuild the estate. ...

January, 08, 2018 Alice in Wine Wonderland

(Wine-Searcher) - Natural wine advocate Alice Feiring pens a love letter to the cradle of wine. Georgia – the country not the state – now has validation to their world's oldest wine region claim. Proof was discovered just 30 miles south of Tbilisi. Carbon dating ...

January, 08, 2018 FRENCH COUNT SUES CHAMPAGNE BRAND OVER HIRING OF EX-PORN STAR

(TDB) - A descendent of the Charles de Cazanove Champagne dynasty is preparing to take the owner of his family’s former Champagne house to court over its decision to hire an ex-porn star as its newest ambassador. Count Loïc Chiroussot of Bigault de Cazanove has described the deci...

January, 07, 2018 GRAPES OF WRATH: A TALE OF MONEY, WINE AND MURDER IN NAPA

(CBSNews) - Ambition, greed and gunshots at a Napa Valley winery -- how did a bag with $800,000 in cash lead to murder in a vineyard? It was a business deal right out of a Hollywood movie. An investor in a Napa Valley winery ponied up $800,000 cash in an effort to make a fortune in the wine busi...

January, 07, 2018 Fires burned the legacy of California's historic 'wine king.' This winery wants to rebuild it.

(NBCNews) -  Sonia Byck-Barwick couldn’t fall asleep. It was a windy October night, and the electricity in her home in Northern California’s wine country flickered. Sometime after 1 a.m., the facilities manager at Paradise Ridge Winery, which she co-owns with her father and...