October, 03, 2017 LAFITE TO RELEASE ITS FIRST CHINESE WINE IN 2018

(TDB) - Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR) is reportedly planning its first inaugural Chinese wine release next year, a joint project between the French company and China’s conglomerate CITIC group in the country’s eastern Shandong province. According to a report by  Decanter ,...

October, 03, 2017 Napa Valley Vintners now wants more collaboration on watershed initiative

(NVR) - In the latest turn in an increasingly confusing controversy, Napa Valley Vintners announced it wants community collaboration on a possible oak woodland and watershed protection ballot measure for the November 2018 election. Is the group disavowing a proposed oak woodland and wate...

October, 02, 2017 Washington Wineries Leery of Land-Use Limits

(Wines&Vines) - Pending changes on land-use regulations in King County, Wash., are mobilizing wineries outside Seattle to make sure the new rules reflect tasting room realities.  A staff report that King County’s executives received earlier this summer will aim to regulate vintner...

October, 02, 2017 Opus One Winery ordered to pay for Napa River contamination

(NVR) - Opus One Winery has been ordered to pay more than $10,000 in monetary relief for contaminating the Napa River with grape waste last year. An undetermined amount of grape waste from the Oakville winery was accidentally pumped into the river in October during the 2016 harvest, Opu...

October, 01, 2017 Paso Robles Wineries Adjust for Challenges

(Wines&Vines) - After a summer of widely favorable growing conditions, farmers and vintners across the Paso Robles AVA face the effects of a prolonged Labor Day heat wave followed by unseasonal humidity and rain, all of which may force a squeeze on limited labor resources.  “I fee...

October, 01, 2017 Parker Please Don't Go

(Wine-Searcher) - Plenty of people love to hate Robert Parker, but Oliver Styles warns that we'll be lost without him. It will no doubt come as some surprise to the likes of Jancis Robinson, Allen Meadows, James Suckling, Michel Bettane, Steven Spurrier, et al. to learn that, according to French...

October, 01, 2017 Large Beaujolais estate sold after three centuries in same family

(Decanter) - Château de la Chaize, one of the largest wine estates in Beaujolais, is changing hands after three-and-a-half centuries of being owned by the same family.  Château de la Chaize has been sold to Maïa Group, an independent French company specialising in infr...

October, 01, 2017 Pennsylvanians Raise A Glass As October Marks Wine Month

 (CBS) — October is Pennsylvania Wine Month and area restaurants and wineries have special offerings throughout the month. Many wineries harvest their grapes in October so visitors can see the wine making process from grape to glass. “In Pennsylvania we of...