March, 25, 2016 What the Araujo family did next after selling to Latour owner

(Decanter) - Bart and Daphne Araujo have started again after selling their namesake California wine estate to one of France's richest men, Francois Pinault, who also owns Château Latour in Bordeaux. Jane Anson finds out about the new Araujo wine venture - and predicts good things to come. ...

March, 25, 2016 Can Climate Change Actually Give Us Better Wine?

(ModernFarmer) - A new study finds that climate change is actually producing an effect prized by vintners: an early harvest. The study , led by Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Elizabeth Wolkovich and published in the journal  Nature Climate Change , finds t...

March, 25, 2016 Direct wine shipping bill wins final vote in Arizona Legislature

(AZCentral) - A bill that would allow consumers to order wines by phone or online and have them shipped directly to their homes or business passed the Arizona Legislature on Thursday. The bill next heads to Gov. Doug Ducey. The Republican governor, who has said he wants to do away w...

March, 24, 2016 Widespread Contamination of Glyphosate Weedkiller in California Wine

(MomsAcrossAmerica) - Concerned with the widespread contamination of glyphosate/Roundup and other glyphosate based herbicides from GMO chemical farming, Moms Across America has initiated the testing of glyphosate in water, urine, breast milk, Pediasure feeding tube liquid given to pediatric pa...

March, 24, 2016 California Court Dismisses Arsenic Lawsuit Against Wineries

(WineSpectator) - The suit claiming 83 California wine brands contain dangerous levels of arsenic has been settled in wineries' favor, but plaintiffs' lawyers vow to fight on. For over a year now, some of California's biggest wine producers stood accused of "poisoning" consumers with excess...

March, 23, 2016 Canada's Wine Industry Eyes Fresh Investment

(Wines&Vines) - Canada’s federal government has pledged to re-invest in agricultural research stations across Canada as part of an ambitious, decade-long investment in the nation’s infrastructure. The promises amount to more than $90 billion over the course of the next 10 years, ...

March, 23, 2016 The 2016 Wine Market Council's Findings Are Wrong

(SVBWine) - The Wine Market Council presented their annual 2016 roadshow in New York in January, and using the above slide announced with fanfare that Millennials are now the largest wine drinking population in America, consuming 42% of all wine and surpassing the boomers with 30% of total con...

March, 23, 2016 Bordeaux Winemakers Are Snapping Up Napa Estates

(Bloomberg) - As the Chinese pile into Bordeaux, French château owners rediscover California. Alfred Tesseron, who owns Bordeaux château  Pontet-Canet , hunted for a Napa Valley property for years. When he and his niece Melanie saw the late Robin Williams’s 640-acre Villa ...