Afternoon Brief: Come Together, a Community for Wine Inc. Launches 'Share & Pair Sundays' Campaign

Running from March 23 through May 25, 2025, Share & Pair Sundays will encourage wine and food enthusiasts to gather weekly, fostering connections through shared culinary experiences. The campaign will span ten consecutive Sundays, beginning with the first Sunday of Spring...
Afternoon Brief: Washington Welcomes It's 21st American Viticultural Area

On October 29, 2024, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) published the final rule for the Beverly, Washington appellation to officially define it as a designated wine grape-growing region...
Afternoon Brief, April 1st

Global Wine Glut Compounds Headaches for Struggling California Vineyards: Times are getting increasingly tough for many of California's wine grape growers...
Afternoon Brief, February 29th

TTB Listens to Wine Industry: The TTB wants to hear what the industry thinks about label regulations, so Wine-Searcher's US editor had his say...
Afternoon Brief, October 12th

Staff Shortages Continue to Bite in the Wine Trade: Almost half (45%) of companies in the wine trade have been impacted by staff shortages in the last two years, with wine producers worst affected due to the seasonality of jobs such as picking...
Afternoon Brief, September 14th

French Prosecutors Probe Champagne Grape-Pickers’ Deaths in Extreme Heat: Public prosecutors in France's northeastern Champagne region are investigating the deaths of at least four grape-pickers who died while working in extreme heat, according to local media reports...
