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2025 Calif. Winegrape Crush Smallest Since 1999, But Bigger Than Expected

That's the conclusion of Chris Bitter, writing in Terrain. This means "less improvement in the wine inventory glut than hoped for, and grape demand isn’t likely to see any improvement in 2026. The crush wasn’t uniformly small, he writes. Demand for white grapes held up

West Coast Hop Breeding Announces Celeste

West Coast Hop Breeding announces release of Celeste. Celeste, formerly known by experimental names WCHB-102 and 2B, is named for heavenly beauty. Celeste features bright, sweet, and clean notes of passion fruit, honeydew, and pine. Celeste represents a breakthrough in combining excellent agronomics and an intense contemporary aroma profile.

Why We Don't Like Bottle Bills -- Maine Version

Maine lawmakers are viewing a pot of $4 million in unclaimed bottle deposits as just ripe to pour into lake and farm conservation. And that's precisely why we don't like bottle bills – the system where people pay a 5-cent or 10-cent deposit on each

[BND] The Beverage Reader

She left Wine Country after her fiancé’s death. Now she owns the winery they dreamed of running In summer 1993, Karen Francis DeGolia had an idyllic life. She was 31 and living part-time in Wine Country with her fiancé, Tom Collins, a firefighter and the owner of a

[BND] Your Breakfast Briefing --

Good Morning and Happy Thursday, April 2, 2022. Is Treasury Wine Estates on the Verge of Bankruptcy? Probably Not One of the oldest games in Wall Street – and financial centers elsewhere – is to peddle a story that a business is in financial trouble. The idea is usually to drive the

Customs Not Explaining Cause of Error Impacting CBMA Importer Refund Claims

Customs & Border Protection officials haven't responded to our inquiry as to what was the cause of Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau advising industry members to "hold up on submitting 2026 Q1 CBMA Importer Refund Claims." From the TTB website: "Due to potential

Survey Finds Few Drinkers Planned to Stop During Dry January

"The only thing you have to fear is, fear itself." – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during his first inaugural address. That seems to be the general theme of a survey by Wine Opinions which there was "scant evidence of intention among U.S. wine drinkers to decrease their