New rules on organic wine in US may ‘harm’ industry // Willamette Valley Wine Foundation Established to Support Rural Wine-Growing Communities

New certification rules on organic wine sold in the US that have recently come into effect could cause "widespread harm to the organic wine and spirits industry", the industry has warned. 

With a $2M “First Leaf ” Community Campaign Portland, Oregon - October 3, 2024 -- The Willamette Valley Wine Foundation, a Portland, Oregon-based

Striking US port workers have reached a “tentative agreement” on wages and have suspended the industrial action.

A growing California Central Coast wine group acquires Parducci Wine Cellars and two other Mendocino County brands. Parducci was founded in 1932.

Plēb’s staff will be out of work for the foreseeable future, and funds will be distributed to them first.

Late last month, a bankruptcy court approved the sale of all Vintage Wine Estates assets.

Dwinell v. McCullough, a lawsuit before the Central District Court of California challenging the state’s wine self-distribution law as unconstitutionally discriminatory against out-of-state interests, will proceed after the court denied the state’s motion to dismiss.

Wine prices are set to increase as UK retailers brace for significant changes to wine taxation starting February 2025.

France's government submitted a request to the European Commission for the approval of a €120m ($132m) grubbing up campaign in September.

A proposed support package from the Nova Scotia government for the province’s wine industry did not follow recommendations in an expert report and was offering too much money to commercial wine bottlers, according to one of the authors of the report.

Wine Australia is urging growers and vineyard managers to continue to safely store unwanted CCA-treated timber trellis posts as the sector seeks solutions for their sustainable disposal.

Electric fencing may be the most effective method in deterring damage in fruit plantings.

Shapiro Administration has invested $1 million in eight research and marketing grants to increase sales, production, and quality of Pa. wines.

Trying to attract new wine drinkers is a sensible policy, but how young do some campaigns want them to be?

The wine industry is an overwhelmingly white industry. A Black sommelier in St. Louis has sought to make the world of wine more accessible to her community.

Most of the recognition of these winegrowers has centered on Northern California, but the movement existed throughout the entire American wine industry.

If wine businesses are going to survive this period, they need to make some changes to adapt to the current market. 

Despite conditions in the fine wine market being perhaps the most difficult in a generation, winemaker Paul Hobbs has insisted there are opportunities, particularly for small and boutique fine wine producers, even if the market does need “corrective steps” in order to recover.

The ethical drinker: Shopping recently, I found myself agonising over apples. Organic apples, from New Zealand, or non-organic apples, grown in the UK.

One of my abiding memories from my days editing Decanter magazine comes from the panel tastings we used to hold in the 10th-floor executive suite overlooking the Tate Modern.