Category Archives: Industry News

California Wineries beware: It is now the policy of New York that it can fine you if you ship to Texas or Oregon or Washington State without a permit to ship from that state. Sound ridiculous? It is. This new policy by the New York State Liquor Authority (NYSLA) is without doubt one of the… Read More

California is by most measures, the eighth largest economy in the world. And of the state’s $2.05 Trillion domestic production, wine makes up more than $51 Billion, or about 2.5% of the economy. As we might expect, the California state legislature, therefore, pays some serious attention to the wine industry. Occasionally they do quite well… Read More

The strongest earthquake to hit Northern California since the devastating 1989 Loma Prieta quake struck in American Canyon, just south of Napa. Latest measurements are somewhere between 6.0 and 6.1 on the Richter scale. “All our 2013 red barrels are on the ground, don’t know how much wine is lost yet” tweeted Steve Matthiasson of… Read More