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...

Purple pager Ron Perry, professor of horticulture at Michigan State University, kindly collected me at the tiny Lansing airport and took me on a whirlwind tour of his university's experimental...

AppellationAmerica.com, the website which for six years educated consumers on the 300-plus federally recognised wine regions in the United States, will cease adding new content in mid August, and...

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...

Battling with the air conditioning, I tell the story of Gruet sparkling wine and what I was up to last week.

Two recent tastings of superior white wines for British Airways First Class passengers could not have been more different.   The first was all Australian, the second all American...

This is what I wrote, with only the skimpiest of editing, at the British Airways First Class American white tasting earlier this week described here . SAUVIGNON BLANCS...

In 2007, for the first time ever, there are two winners of the annual international travel bursary that is the Geoffrey Roberts Award . Florida-based geography teacher Richard Villadoniga ,...

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)...

As I said in your turn not too long ago, I took part in a particularly esoteric tasting recently - of wines that are rarely seen outside their native American state. This selection of Michigan's...