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Colorado treasurer claims tariffs hurting craft beer and wine industries
Colorado Treasurer Dave Young claims tariffs are hurting the craft beer and wine industries across the state. Just last year, Colorado's craft brewing industry brought in $2.5 billion for the economy. Now the state treasurer's office said that the…
Wine Comes Earlier in Europe's Searing Summer Heat
This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to the Business of Food newsletter, covering how the world feeds itself in a changing economy and climate. This week, Nil Codina Martinez and Abigail Tobias look at the shifting geographies of wine. Any…
Meet the CEO behind 1 in 4 bottles of Oregon wine sold in America
Amy Prosenjak was running inventory for a billion-dollar furniture company in Ohio when her husband floated an idea that would change their lives. Prosenjak and her husband were in their early 30s and had fallen in love with wine tourism, traveling…
Layoffs rock California wine business as Americans ditch drinking
California's wine industry continues to crack, with dozens of layoffs hitting a Golden State wine cap manufacturer as more Americans leave booze behind. G-3 Enterprises sent the notice to 66 employees this week, blaming “significant…
Wildfire threatens Canada wine region
John Glavina, who owns the Giant Head Estate Winery in the community of Summerland, told AFP he got an evacuation order just hours after the Bald Range fire ignited on August 7. He got in the car with his wife, dog, passport and laptop, but left…
10 Twilight Zone Episodes That Have Aged Like Fine Wine
The Twilight Zone still stands as one of the best sci-fi TV shows of all time, and some of its best episodes have stood the test of time. The sci-fi genre is one of the most popular on TV, being home to some of the most popular worlds, like those…
Miller Family Sells Wine Portfolio to Precept Wine & Spirits
A Seattle-based company is buying one of Santa Barbara County's largest wine operations, as Precept Wine & Spirits today announced the purchase of the entire wine portfolio of Miller Family Wine Company. The sale represents a deeper dive into…
8 Timeless Nancy Strips That Are Aging Like Fine-Wine
Although Nancy isn't as famous as her fellow comic strip stars, she has delivered countless clever gags that have only become better with time. Each of the most famous comic strips finds comedy through a very different relationship between its…
10 Game of the Year Winners That Aged Like Fine Wine
The biggest award a video game can win is obviously Game of the Year, and that honor has gone to dozens of worthy titles such as Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3. However, these awards have been going on for longer than players might have realized…
Laurie Jervis: Miller Family Wine Company Sells Brand Portfolio to Precept Wine & Spirits
Seattle's Precept Wine & Spirits announced Friday that it has purchased the Santa Barbara-based Miller Family Wine Company's portfolio of premium and national wine brands. The acquisition marks Precept's first investment into California wines.
Review: Minimum Wines, maximum vibes (and $10 glasses) at Melbourne's hottest new hangout
“It's paaacked,” pings a text from my mate, who's uncharacteristically early for our Sunday sundowners at Northcote's new Community Wine House. On an unseasonably balmy winter arvo, of course everyone else has had the same idea. And I…
Extreme heat spurs earliest-ever Champagne harvest, putting its famous taste to the test
Hot summers are making European grape harvesting seasons shorter and earlier and making grapes more sugary — a conundrum for Champagne producers who want a long maturation period. Winemakers generally expect lower yields this year following…
I used to drink a bottle of wine a night - a new drug helped me quit
For almost a decade, Julie Lord's evenings followed the same pattern: a glass of Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc that would always inevitably turn into a whole bottle. It hadn't always been that way. Julie, 56, from Leeds, had a successful, high-paying…
How England's brutal summer heat is affecting farm animals and crops
As parts of the UK swelter through a fifth successive climate crisis-driven heatwave and nearly three-quarters of England remains in drought, how are six homegrown products faring? On her farm in Durham on Monday afternoon where she was vaccinating…
Rabbit Hole Founder Says Bourbon's Shakeout Could Be Good Thing
Rabbit Hole Distillery's Core Lineup. When Kaveh Zamanian decided to enter the bourbon business in 2012, there were plenty of people in Kentucky who thought the clinical psychologist from California had lost his mind. At the time, bourbon was only…
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