09/30/20 Calistoga evacuated as Glass Fire closes in Within a couple of days, the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties has exploded in size to 4,660 acres with 2 percent containment and destroyed at least 80 buildings, including homes and wineries. All of Calistoga's roughly 5,000 residents were ordered to evacuate Monday.

09/30/20 Rombauer is safe. Here are Napa Valley wineries not yet damaged in the Glass Fire despite rumors Rombauer Vineyards is one of several wineries that were rumored to be damaged but are safe. Failla Wines, Schramsberg Vineyards, Mending Wall Winery and Davis Estates are all also okay.

09/30/20 'Cross your fingers for us': Napa Valley wineries report property damages amid Glass Fire Behrens Family Winery in St. Helena - Burgess Cellars in Deer Park - Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga - Chateau Boswell in St. Helena - Fairwinds Winery in Calistoga - The Grill restaurant at Meadowood resort - Hourglass Winery - Hunnicutt Winery - Merus Winery in St. Helena - Newton Vineyard in St. Helena - Tofanelli Family Vineyard - Tuck Beckstoffer Estate

09/30/20 Fires Leave Napa Harvest on a Knife Edge Producers are scrambling to save the vintage as fires once more devastate wine country.

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09/30/20 Restaurants in New York open indoor dining to hesitant New Yorkers today Restaurants open at 25% capacity, but many people are reluctant to return and some owners say the opening may not be enough to secure a future

09/30/20 SB-1102 Vetoed by Governor Newsom SB-1102 would have required H-2A employers to compensate employees at their regular rate of pay for "time spent while being transported by the employer or its agents from the housing provided by the employer or its agents to the employer's or agent's worksite."

09/30/20 A new ruling by the US Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) allows for the use of "typical values" for voluntary calorie statements on labels and adverts for wine, spirits and beer. In case you missed it: The TTB also clarified that members of the industry are not required to obtain lab analyses for each product batch in order to obtain a breakdown of the nutrient content for labelling.

09/30/20 BC Wine Institute Releases Survey Results Highlighting The Impacts of Covid-19 on The BC Wine Industry In August, the BCWI engaged market research and analytics company, Leger Marketing to conduct an industry-wide survey to help understand and assess the impact of COVID-19 on the BC wine industry, the effectiveness of provincial and federal relief programs and the perceived challenges for the future. According to key findings from the survey results, one in 10 BC wineries and grapegrowers noted that they are at risk of closing due to COVID-19, with 58 per cent seeing a loss in revenue and 55 per cent having reduced access to customers.

09/30/20 Robb Recommends: Silver Oak's First New Brand in 20 Years Is a Wine Worth the Wait Does the reigning king of Cab regions need another Bordeaux blend? Absolutely, if it's from Silver Oak.

09/30/20 Riboli Family Wines Announces Launch of New Wine Brand, Highlands 41 "Highlands 41 is more than just a wine, it is a lifestyle, proudly rooted in Paso Robles."

09/30/20 Scheid Family Wines Announces First Organic Harvest From White Flower Vineyard In The Hames Valley Ava Scheid Family Wines is proud to announce its first ever harvest of organically certified wine grapes. The Petite Sirah grapes were harvested from Scheid's White Flower Vineyard located in the Hames Valley AVA in southern Monterey County

09/30/20 Wines of Chile USA Capitalizes on Sales Momentum With New Fall Programming With Chilean wine sales on the upswing in the U.S., reversing a 10-year trend,, Wines of Chile USA is launching a series of initiatives over the remainder of 2020 to capitalize on momentum.

09/30/20 How Does Your Dirt Stack Up? Find Out By Entering the 2020 Harvest Terroir Challenge Want to know how your wines stack up to those in your particular AVA? Enter the 2020 Harvest Terroir Challenge, the only competition to judge wines exclusively by American Viticultural Area. Wines from the same appellation are tasted side by side to determine which rise above.

09/30/20 Parts of famed Castello di Amorosa Winery destroyed "I didn't think fire would jump Highway 29, it was windy last night." - Dario Sattui

09/30/20 Glass Fire damages wineries as it marches around the Upvalley Nearly 150 wineries are within areas with mandated or recommended evacuation, the county reports. A number of them are reporting damage, in some cases, destruction.

09/30/20 Coronavirus, fire crisis lessons for Sonoma County wine business: Safety first; form relationships At the end of it all, you can only control your reputation.

09/30/20 Coca-Cola is partnering with brewing giant Molson Coors Beverage to launch a range of hard seltzers in the US. Releasing a boozy version of the drinks stateside will help the soft drink group expand its alcoholic portfolio beyond Latin America and Japan, where it sells a beverage called Lemon-Do.

09/30/20 Fire crews score victory against Glass fire in Trione-Annadel State Park Fire crews scored a critical victory in Trione-Annadel State Park on Tuesday, hemming in a branch of the Glass fire that threatened to roar through the heavily wooded park and into densely populated neighborhoods in eastern Santa Rosa.

09/30/20 Napa Valley's Castello di Amorosa winery loses $5 million worth of wine - but $30 million castle unscathed Vintner Sattui envisioned this architectural wonder as a tribute to his ancestors

09/30/20 New Premixed Cocktail Line, Uptown Wine Cocktails, Named Editors' Pick and Best New Wine of 2020 The BuzzBallz, LLC/Southern Champion team entered the cocktail line in both contests this summer. According to Convenience Store News, nearly 100 companies entered to win in 38 categories.

09/30/20 Barossa Valley's Lambert Estate Joins Forces with Palmateer Wine Group Lambert Estate Wines in Australia's Barossa Valley has partnered with Palmateer Wine Group of San Rafael, California, to handle distribution and marketing in the U.S.

09/30/20 Sainte-Famille Winery puts up the For Sale sign "It was not really a hard decision to be honest, not for me," Lake said. "This business, this whole industry was something my mother and stepfather got into and I didn't play a huge role in it. It wasn't until mom decided to retire that I came on board and took over the day to day stuff, along with my daughter. It just became apparent to me and to her that in order to advance the business the way we would like to see it advance, it's going to take somebody with more vision and more money, resources to invest."

09/30/20 'Wind And Refrigerated Sunlight': Winemakers Talk About The Santa Lucia Highlands "We feel we are doing things right here."

09/30/20 EU Eyes Tariffs Against the U.S., Putting Trade Conflict Recovery at Risk The transatlantic trade conflict isn't showing signs of winding down any time soon, and a ruling from the World Trade Organization means that a fresh round of retaliatory tariffs could jeopardize the nascent economic recoveries in both the U.S. and the European Union.

09/30/20 Sex doesn't sell after all A new study casts doubt on the justification for bombarding the public with images of people (mostly women) baring skin in suggestive poses. The authors find sex does not sell after all-"a result," they write, "that questions sexualization as a useful marketing strategy."

09/30/20 Glass fire in Napa Valley went from spectacle to menace in just a few hours "Everybody said there's no way it's going to jump the river, Silverado Trail, and the vineyard, and we know that it did."