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On the question of "Is Wine Dying," the Hat provides a clue

March 30, 2026 (Saint Helena, CA) — This year at Auction Napa Valley, legendary vintner Robin Lail will be honored with a lifetime achievement award recognizing her founding role in [...]

In what could be called the Great Wine Decline, the wine industry has suffered a 21% decrease in revenue from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 through 2025, which has led to a surge in winery closings. The wine sector's total revenue fell by $19.7 billion over the...

Insights from a bottling manager and how Clevertech’s team backed him at every step When wineries invest in automation – whether to reduce manual labor, boost performance, or keep production [...]

This week we welcome Robyn Sebastiani from the Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers Alliance. Robyn serves as Executive Director of both the alliance and its charitable foundation, and she joins us to talk about what the SVVGA actually does and how it all got started....

Sometimes we talk to winemakers who are part of big wineries and big production facilities. Other times we talk to winemakers like Fausto who are, truly, deeply part of the land and the culture and the area where they are from. Fausto is in the Piedmont area of Italy,...

Bordeaux hits back at its critics and prepares to take the fight to the cool kids with its revamped line of ‘clarets’... and it's all a horrible mess

Wine educator, journalist and researcher Deborah Parker Wong learned firsthand that the traditional wine introduction doesn’t work for Gen Z. She found a more effective entry: sweet wines.

With gas prices spiking, airfare following suit, and nightmarish security delays embroil many American airports, Adam, Joanna, and Zach ponder whether the tr...