To much of the civilised world, it seems most natural. You walk into your local grocery store or supermarket and walk out with the ingredients for your dinner and a wine to drink with it. This is,...

Harmon Skurnik of respected New York wine importer Michael Skurnik Wines has just sent this urgent call to action for anyone who wants to maintain the dynamic range of wines currently available...

I seriously recommend the website of the American wine trade publication Wines & Vines . In the last few days I have come across two fascinating stories there. The first, Winegrowers cash...

American consumers’ right to order wine from out-of-state producers and have it shipped to their homes is again under siege, this time in the form of a bill introduced in the US House of...

Wines & Vines magazine, based in California, reports that the number of North American wineries grew by 361 in the last year, and by 1,961 since 2005 - impressive growth, indeed, for a...

In the same week, California vintners announced a third-party certification programme for sustainable grapegrowing and winemaking and Wine Business Monthly ( WBM ) revealed that the number of US...

Kermit Lynch is regarded with something approaching awe by American wine lovers. He has spent four decades introducing them to hand-picked wines off the beaten track via a keen grasp of...

Maine, the state in which ex-president/ex-drinker George W Bush's family has a summer home, has a new embarrassment - a law that goes into effect this Saturday prohibiting wine shops and grocery...

For the first time ever last year, Americans drank more wine in total than Italians – managing a national wine consumption of 27.3 million hl as opposed to 26 million hl in Italy. This was one...

The latest AC Nielsen market research figures show that the US is catching up France as second most important exporter of wine to the UK after Australia. Moving annual totals to early...

John C Feltz, Dayton, Ohio: The real shakeout on what  yesterday's ruling on interstate shipping  means is still to come - does the Commerce clause really trump the three-tier...

Hooray! At long last a major plank in the cumbersome US distribution system of anything alcoholic was smashed in the Supreme Court on 16 may 05 when judges ruled that a ban on shipping wine...

Gail Forecki, USA: I am a wine retailer in the US ( Washington state)...

from: Andrew Robertson of Manhattan question: I am a New York subscriber to the FT and read your column. I was...

Research from Ernest & Julio Gallo wine has found that 92 per cent of the population suffer from a huge new phenomenon, dubbed Social Performance Anxiety, typified by feeling the need to bluff...