Afternoon Brief, March 7th

Legal Dispute Roils Wine Company Leadership: Stamford-headquartered Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits (DFSW) andits associated constellation of companies have collected an impressive portfolio of wine and liquor brands over the course of more than 40 years, including the popular Josh Cellars brand of Californian wines, the Yellow Tail label from Australia and several brands of whiskey, vodka and gin...

Afternoon Brief: California Grapegrowers Race to Beat the Heat

Trucks full of wine grapes clogged roads all over northern California wine country this week as wineries raced to get their precious cargo into tanks before a brutal heatwave shriveled them to raisins...

Afternoon Brief, November 3rd

Down to Zero: Ignoring Neo-Prohibitionists Could Prove Dangerous to the Wine Industry: The recently completed Lifestyle, Diet, Wine & Health congress in Toledo, Spain, brought together experts from around the world to acknowledge the threat from neo-Prohibitionists and to begin to decide on how to respond...

Afternoon Brief, April 4th

Late Frost Ices Over French Vineyards, Threatens Fruit Crops: Temperature swing is threatening fruit crops across multiple countries...