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Atlanta, January 29, 2025 – With declining trends across the wine and overall beverage alcohol markets, the direct-to-consumer wine shipping channel faced a challenging year in 2024, according to the ...

Bourbon and Wine About to Get Cheaper: The fine wine and spirit sectors might be slowing, but the bulk end of the market is doing just fine ...

There are few words in the current era of wine as sexy and trendy as “sustainability.” Crafting an ethical approach to stewarding the land while bringing up a value-added, luxury crop — in this case, ...

For Kimberly T. Johnson, winery ownership began with a much less complicated mission— free admission into some of Maryland’s biggest wine festivals by working as a volunteer. At the time, her career ...

Four decades of helping wineries tell their stories have only deepened Kimberly Noëlle Charles’s connection to the industry — and her passion for its community. Kimberly Noelle Charles, DipWSET, ...

It’s no secret that growing grapes within the reach of the Pacific Ocean — whether you’re in the Santa Cruz Mountains, on the Sonoma Coast or up north in Oregon — can make one go gray early. But, say ...

One of the biggest changes in the California wine industry since the end of Prohibition begins on Jan. 1, 2024, and it looks like many of the state’s producers either don’t know about it or aren’t ...

Wildfires have been escalating in frequency and intensity for decades. North America’s West Coast experienced dramatic increases in fires in the 2020s, leading to growing winery concerns about wine ...

New Zealand has an established reputation for innovation and quality wine production, so it should be no surprise that technology developed in this small country is finding a home on the west coast of ...

As the wine industry continues to recover from pandemic-related hardships, along with ongoing challenges from global supply chain disruptions, Gusmer Enterprises, a leading supplier of liquid ...

The 2025 winegrape harvest in Sonoma County will go down as one of the better winegrape crops in recent years as a wet winter with few evenings under “frost watch,” was followed by a mild summer ...