California 2009 Vintage Guide
Torrential early-October rain interrupted a mild summer; producers who picked in time produced supple, generous wines...
Torrential early-October rain interrupted a mild summer; producers who picked in time produced supple, generous wines...
More and more winemakers in the True Sonoma Coast are exploring the parameters of the possible.
Why California today is so fascinating....
See California Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in a new light...
William Kelley is one of the first people to get a look inside Ulysses, the new Christian Moueix Napa Valley venture...
Fashion house Chanel has made its first wine acquisition outside France, buying Napa Valley's St Supéry from the Skalli family for an undisclosed sum.
A new wine film claiming to 'raise the curtain' on how wine is produced is set to open the Napa Valley film festival this year.
Swanson Vineyards - a pioneer in planting Merlot in Napa - has been bought by California's Vintage Wine Estates.
The chief executive of the Napa Valley wine train has apologised for his staff after their eviction of 11 women spurred a wave of criticism on social media.
Napa Valley Vintners has tried to calm concerns that the 2015 Napa wine harvest is under threat from a spate of California fires.
Long Meadow Ranch winery has bought a 59 hectare estate in Anderson Valley, where it intends to emulate Burgundy by focusing on single vineyard Pinot Noir.
Highly drinkable yet in many cases ageworthy...
E&J Gallo winery has bought more than 100 hectares of vineyard on the fringes of Napa Valley, as part of its drive to invest in estates producing premium wine.
Shipments of California wine hit a new record of 268.6m cases in 2014 thanks to increasing sales in the US, show new figures, but there is concern over the potential fallout from a trade dispute.
Duckhorn Wine Company has acquired the prized Three Palms Vineyard in Napa Valley after 37 years of making acclaimed Merlot using its fruit.
Napa Valley pioneer Joseph Phelps – an ‘extraordinary and visionary leader’ in the fields of wine, construction and philanthropy – has died at the age of 87.
Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) is to sell three of its wineries in Australia and close down another in California as part of continued plans to cut overheads.
Napa’s ill-fated former Copia wine centre has been sold and is a step closer to redevelopment, possibly including a presence for the Culinary Institute of America.
Permits to build wineries have become ‘like gold’ in Napa Valley amid rising debate among officials, residents and winemakers over the number of estates the region can sustain.
Chinese basketball star-turned-wine producer Yao Ming is using crowdfunding to try to raise US$3m to help build a visitor centre for his wines in California's Napa Valley.
A subsidiary of E&J Gallo Winery is facing legal action brought by the state of California, alleging that the firm used ‘hazardous waste’ in its production of wine bottles - a charge the company denied.
Most of the $300,000 of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti and Screaming Eagle wines stolen from The French Laundry restaurant in California on Christmas Day have been found in a warehouse thousands of miles away.
More than 20 vineyards and wineries in California's Paso Robles region have changed hands in the past two years as 'lifestyle' owners have succumbed to financial pressures and sold up, according to a new report.
Napa Valley's Shafer winery has agreed to drop legal action against nearby rival Howell Mountain Vineyards over use of the Hillside Select name on wine labels.