California vintage guide
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BR Cohn winery sold in California
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Mumm kicks off earliest Napa wine harvest for years
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Google Street View offers virtual tours of California wineries
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Californian Chardonnay: 10 exciting producers
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Anderson Valley can be Burgundy of California, says producer
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.
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Californian Pinot Noir 2009
Highly drinkable yet in many cases ageworthy...
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Gallo continues spending spree with Napa vineyard buys
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.
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California wine sales hit record amid tariff fears
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.
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Duckhorn buys Three Palms Vineyard in Napa Valley
Duckhorn Wine Company has acquired the prized Three Palms Vineyard in Napa Valley after 37 years of making acclaimed Merlot using its fruit.
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Napa Valley 'leader' Joseph Phelps dies
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.
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Treasury Wine Estates continue to cut overheads in Australia and California
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.
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Napa: Copia wine centre sold to development firm
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.
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Napa debates limit on winery numbers
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.
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Yao Ming seeks $3m in crowdfunding to promote Napa wine
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.
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Gallo Glass faces lawsuit over ‘hazardous waste’ in wine bottle factory
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.
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Napa police find French Laundry's stolen DRC
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.
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Financial pressure forcing vineyard sales in California's Paso Robles
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.
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Shafer drops lawsuit over 'Hillside Select' name
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.
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Graphic: California leads global vineyard price rises
Data from estate agency Knight Frank shows that Sonoma in California has seen some of the steepest rises in vineyard prices. See the charts below for more details.
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California winery Kosta Browne gets new majority owner
A US-based private equity company has bought a majority stake in Kosta Browne, a California winery with a cult following that sells its signature Pinot Noir for $100-a-bottle.
