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The IRS Is Cracking Down on a Favorite Way the Ultrawealthy Pass On Money One family fights $736 million gift tax bill on its GRATs while popular trusts proliferate. (Wall Street Journal) How to grab double-digit sales growth in the wine and alcohol space Traditional wine sales remain under

Climate change is putting the squeeze on the world’s grapegrowers: new research Renowned wine regions across the globe are grappling with the effects of human-caused climate change. Winemakers from across Australia, California, Chile and South Africa are working in warmer, drier conditions than ever before. That also leaves

The Southern Glazer’s Settlement: Are you serious? A joke of a settlement: There is no gray area in these laws — Southern willfully and actively violated the law. The company illegally bribed retailers and developed strategies to conceal its crimes. Yet the federal government decided to give it a pass.