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June 9, 2025
Wine Enthusiasts Show Up in a Big Way at Auction Napa Valley: The incredible results from this year's Auction Napa Valley came to a stunning close on Saturday night. With passionate support from wine lovers...
June 6, 2025
From Still to Sparkling: What's Next for the Bottle Weight Accord: The Sustainable Wine Roundtable is pleased to announce the forthcoming creation of a new accord covering sparkling wine bottles...
June 5, 2025
A Message from Bob Hendrickson, RNDC: By now, you’ve heard the news that RNDC will exit the California market. We want to provide context around this difficult decision, share an update on our Brown-Forman...
June 4, 2025
How Can the Wine Industry Tackle ‘Systemic’ Problems of the Labour Exploitation?: The wine industry needs to not only do more to improve labour standards across the supply chain – but also to start a conversation...
June 3, 2025
RNDC to 'Withdraw' from California by End of Summer: Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), the country’s second-largest wine-and-spirits distributor will be departing the Golden State entirely...
June 2, 2025
Constellation Brands Closes Wine Transaction with The Wine Group: Constellation Brands, Inc. announced today that it has closed its previously announced transaction with The Wine Group to divest primarily...
May 30, 2025
Jersey Lifts Happy Hour Ban: The Channel Island of Jersey has removed its ban on on-trade drinks promotions almost 40 years after the policy was implemented...
May 29, 2025
The latest development in the ongoing saga surrounding President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs involves an unlikely party: a small, family-run wine importer...
May 28, 2025
Benchmarking the Premium Wine Industry - Exclusive Data from SVB: Gain a data-driven view of the premium wine market with Silicon Valley Bank’s latest Peer Group Analysis, featuring anonymized financial...
May 27, 2025
Cuts Could Leave AI in Charge of Wine: Because of the Trump administration's downsizing of bureaucracy, the federal agency responsible for regulating alcohol has 13 percent fewer workers than last yea...