Papapietro Perry Winery and Four Roses Bourbon Take Top Honors (March 6, 2026) — Winners have been announced in the fifth annual Los Angeles Invitational Wine & Spirits Challenge. A pinot noir from Papapietro Perry (Sonoma County, Calif.) and a small batch bourbon from Four Roses Distillery...

Napa, California - VA Filtration and LEV2050 have established an exclusive North American distribution agreement. VA Filtration and LEV2050 have established an exclusive distribution agreement for North America and Chile. This partnership allows VA Filtration, based in Napa, California, to be the...

Sampling is in full swing on the Southern Hemisphere’s 2025 vintage and quality has been rated very positively. The great majority of sampling activity is being carried out by longstanding customers with established programmes and tenders; new buyers, and new programmes, are few. Only Chile and New...

Sampling is in full swing on the Southern Hemisphere’s 2025 vintage and quality has been rated very positively. The great majority of sampling activity is being carried out by longstanding customers with established programmes and tenders; new buyers, and new programmes, are few. Only Chile and New...

Global wine consumption in 2024 is estimated by the Organisation of Vine & Wine (OIV) to have reached 214.2 million hectolitres, down 3.3% versus 2023 and the lowest level since 1961. In its recently-published 2024 industry report, the OIV attributed the decline in consumption – which has “followed...

Each year, late March into April can feel like a hinge point in the bulk-buying calendar. International buying generally enters a quieter phase while analysis is made of Q1 sales and future sales for the Northern Hemisphere summer are projected. Meanwhile, the size and quality of the Southern...

An unseasonably damp summer in many growing areas of Chile (a rainy January followed by nearly three weeks of mist/fog in February) and Argentina (10 weeks or so of lingering rainfall) has raised concern about their respective 2021 vintages, pushing up prices on the 2020 wines and further reducing...

Things Certainly Can Change in One Year by Steve Fredricks Last year at this time, mere weeks before the United States shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we were in an excess phase of the cycle for nearly every variety in California. Now, less than two months into 2021, the situation is...

As we enter the second month of 2021 the global bulk wine market can be characterised by being uncharacterizable: each producer country is currently contesting with its own unique cocktail of domestic and internationally-derived factors so that any sweeping statement about the global supply-demand...

An independently managed investment company of Investindustrial, one of the leading European investment and advisory groups, has signed an agreement to purchase a majority stake (73.5%) in Della Toffola SpA, a leading designer and manufacturer of machinery and automated lines for the entire...