Jean-Charles Boisset, scion of France's third largest wine company, and Gina Gallo, granddaughter of Julio Gallo, grand-niece of Ernest, and a public face of E&J Gallo, America's largest winery, were married Sept. 26.

Two of France's best-known wine groups merge next year.

The North Coast harvest enters its eighth week after a weekend of triple-digit heat.

but report that Spotted Wing Drosophila has been found in Oregon wine grapes is premature.

The partners have quietly worked on this project since establishing a joint venture in 2005.

Pali Wine Co. sold wines for $40, $50 and $60 a bottle in 2005, Most of its Pinot Noirs are now $19 a bottle.

Two movies of special interest to the wine community received their worldwide premieres over the weekend.

What makes this new label very practical for growers is that Rally can be applied by tractor

Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL - News) will showcase a portfolio of new filtration and separation solutions for the wine industry at the International Enological and Bottling Equipment Exhibition (SIMEI) in Milan, Italy, on November 24-28, 2009.

during the recent Wine Industry Financial Symposium in Napa (pdf)

Legislation that would cut beer taxes charged to brewers has garnered 218 cosponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives, enough to get the measure passed in the 435-member House, according to the Beer Institute

Examples of both Napa and Sonoma counties showing their individual Appellations and what an acre of vineyard will cost in each of the many Appellations along with a typical cost and cash-flow breakdown of buying land, sales of grapes and the cost of bottling.

It is champagne's bubbles which give the drink flavour and fizz, and glasses that promote bubbles will improve the drinking experience, scientists say.

It may have been a sour year for the national economy, but bottle it up and 2009 will probably taste better on reflection.

Just as prices on menus have edged down, so have wine list prices, as restaurant owners look for ways to keep their bar stools and tables filled in a struggling economy.

Wine traders have proposed a uniform excise tax on imported spirits and wines that is three times higher than the tax imposed on local alcoholic produce stressing the current tax on foreign brands is 10 times higher than the local produce and is ground enough for the European Commission to sue the Philippines before the World Trade Organization on discrimination charges.

Austrian wine has not experienced as severe a backlash as some other wine markets in the current economic scenario. Indeed, Austrian exports saw a 10% rise in volume while earnings remained stable.

Ripe clusters of grapes are being picked from the vines and crushed at local vineyards in the low rolling hills of Woodside and mountains on Skyline Boulevard. San Mateo County winemakers say the quality of grapes is quite good, and expectations are high for some fine wines from this year's local crop in years to come.

Celebrity Chef Emeril Lagasse of Food Network fame made a recent appearance in Wine Country to shoot 11 episodes of "Emeril Green," a new series on green cooking.

Although grape production is down in Texas due to frosts in March and April

A massive, unprecedented and unpredictable river restoration project will begin, reawakening miles of dried riverbed and salmon runs that have been extinct for six decades.

the wine industry's self-assessment has "proven to be a very successful effort to control the spread of Pierce's disease and the glassy-winged sharpshooter

Zinfandel Advocates & Producers has announced its new board of directors for 2009-10.

"It's the most volital season I've ever seen since I've been growing grapes here, its always a challenge because of the Mountain Valley weather," explains wine maker, Andy Sponseller.

LVMH and Richemont could save about 500 million euros ($714 million) by merging, mostly through combining their distribution and gaining clout in negotiations to buy advertising and rent store space