For some typically lively discussion on this article, see our members' views on the forum . A quiet revolution has been taking place on the California wine scene, driven by refugees from the...

Yesterday 1,000 of the major players in Silicon Valley and the global media gathered at the Tuileries in Paris for eG8, President Sarkozy's pre-Deauville online initiative. Attendees at the...

The 2007 vintage was one in which most California Cabernet Sauvignon producers made delicious and, in many cases, superb wines. Even the value-priced companies produced competent - and sometimes...

It is rare for California to have a mediocre Cabernet Sauvignon crop. Typical abundant sunshine, high summer temperatures and absence of rain during the growing season usually guarantee ripeness...

After one of the coolest springs and summers on record (see California 2010 - lean and mean? ) , heat has finally arrived in California, sending sugars soaring and winemakers gearing for an...

Could it be that the 12.5% alcohol California table wine, a regular feature of the 1970s, will return? That's quite a stretch, yet the 2010 growing season is, as of now, one of the coolest...

Once again, Northern California-based Silicon Valley Bank has peered into its crystal ball to prognosticate what's ahead for the US wine industry in 2010-2011. Last year, it predicted quite...

The annual California Grape Crush Report and Grape Acreage Report show that the 2009 vintage was the second-largest wine grape crop in the state's history, at 3.696 million tons, second only to...

See full tasting notes on Purple pages .   California wine can be frustrating for those of us who live outside the United States. Thanks to recent swollen crops and...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s 2009 Preliminary Grape Crush Report, released yesteday, shows that the 2009 vintage is the second-largest wine grape crop in California’s...

In Europe, the enforced shrinkage of EU vineyards summarised in Dec 2007 in  EU reform - as good as it gets is already having an obvious effect, while the signs are that in the much freer...

As I reported here , in a 24-hour period in mid October, between 2 and 10 inches (5–25 cm) of rain fell in central and northern California vineyards, and it continued to rain, lightly, for four...

On 13 Oct, one week ago, the Napa Valley Vintners Association presented its 2009 harvest report to the media. Winemakers hailed the vintage as phenomenal: even, steady, no frost damage nor smoke...

Vintage reports are more interesting if they come with a story, and this one does. When members of the Rutherford Dust Society - growers and winemakers in the Rutherford appellation of Napa...

It's obvious that the recession has crippled wine sales at the high end, at least in the United States. Americans are buying as much wine as they did a year ago, though they're spending far less...