Santa Ynez Valley Nonprofit, SYV Pride, Plans for Fifth Year of Family-Friendly Parade, Parties, Festival, and More, during Annual Santa Barbara Wine Country Pride Celebration May 20, 2026 (Solvang, CA) — [...]
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Castle Rock Winery Celebrates 32 Years as One of America’s Last Large-Scale Independent Family-Owned Wine Brands
Pioneer of Value-Priced Premium Pinot Noir Continues to Grow While Launching New Success with Kosmic Kitty Wines May 20, 2026 (Rolling Hills, CA) — Founded in 1994, Castle Rock Winery is [...]
Down Under on Top at Greatest Chardonnay Showdown
London Wine Fair 2026 Icon Tasting May 20, 2026 — In what has been billed as a “celebration of Chardonnay”, the results of London Wine Fair’s third Icon Tasting – [...]
French beer overtakes wine consumption
French beer overtakes wine consumption
🎧Adelaide Hills: Lofty Ambitions
Buckle up, we're heading back out into wine country, this time to the intriguing Adelaide Hills wine region in South Australia. It gets talked about a lot - but what's it really all about? Is it all about piercing, textural Chardonnay? Or fine sparkling wine? What...
🎧Ep 607: Wine Legends – The People Who Solved the Great French Wine Blight
In this show rather than one wine legend, I talk about a team of people who saved the wine world from The Great French Wine Blight of the 1860s – 1890s, which turned out to be caused a destructive, insect called phylloxera that came to Europe on American grapevines. I...
Not Pushy. Just Helpful: Reframing the Wine Club Conversion
Not Pushy. Just Helpful: Reframing the Wine Club Conversation There’s a quiet shift happening in tasting rooms right now, and it’s costing wineries more than they realize. A guest walks in. The experience is warm, engaging, and thoughtful. The wines are poured with...
UC ANR, Catalonian Research Institute to Partner on Water Sustainability, Resilience
President of Catalonia attends signing of agreement at UC ANR offices in Davis May 19, 2026 — On May 14, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources welcomed a delegation [...]
J Vineyards & Winery Unveils Second Bottling of LOVE Wine in Partnership with grantLOVE
J Vineyards and grantLOVE come together again to celebrate women in wine and art May 19, 2026 (Healdsburg, CA) — J Vineyards & Winery, one of California’s leading producers of [...]
