Afternoon Brief: Kenwood Vineyards Goes Dark as Korbel Owner Buys Back Sonoma Property
Kenwood Vineyards, a longtime Sonoma Valley winery, has abruptly closed its tasting room, and a new property sale raises fresh questions about the brand's future...
Harvests downgraded; buyers largely unmoved The recent downgrading of Italy’s 2025 crush-size forecast means that none of this year’s major Northern Hemisphere winegrape harvests are now projected to reach their five-year averages. At least three, in fact, are expected to fall considerably short,...
Read MoreThe Northern Hemisphere harvests are now complete and all have come in lighter than average, though the shortfalls in Italy and Spain (both estimated by OIV to be -9% versus the five-year average) are not dramatic in an historical context, unlike France’s very light 34 million hectolitres, down 27%...
Read MoreAfternoon Brief: Gallo Acquires Whiny Baby, Wine Brand Aimed at Gen Z
Gallo has snapped up another California wine brand - one specifically marketed to Gen Z drinkers of legal age...
Afternoon Brief: Winegrape Growers Urged to Vote on Pierce’s Disease and Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Assessment by May 13
California winegrape growers are now receiving ballots in the mail to vote on extending the Pierces Disease and Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (PD/GWSS) Assessment for another five years through 2031...
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, August 14th
Maui Wildfires Kill Dozens and Devastate Communities and Hospitality Businesses: The historic town of Lahaina, popular with tourists, has lost hundreds of buildings, including restaurants like Fleetwood's on Front St., owned by musician Mick Fleetwood...
