Walk a California wine aisle in any city and the bottles will be carrying small printed seals on their back labels, sometimes…
Regenerative viticulture is rewriting vineyard economics from the soil up. At Tablas Creek and across California, fewer clusters per vine are delivering higher profits, raising a question the industry cannot ignore.
Wine tells you less about its contents than orange juice. The EU now mandates full ingredient disclosure. The United States has not followed, and the gap is widening.
Before the sun has cleared the trellis line, a viticulturist in Fresno walks the headland to the irrigation controller mounted on a…
Open the membership page of the International Wineries for Climate Action and the document is laid out the way a tax code…
Clipped to a board on the wall of a small Loire cellar, the addition log for a single cuvée of Chenin Blanc…
In a Kakheti cellar in spring, after the floor has been swept and the room cooled to the year’s working temperature, a…
On January 11, 2024, Karen MacNeil published a short dispatch on WineSpeed under a deliberately flat headline: Bye Bye Big Heavy Bottles.…
A dry-farmed vine in its third leaf is not, on the surface, a sympathetic object. The canopy is sparser than its irrigated…
Cover crops in vineyards sequester up to four times the carbon of typical cropland. The science, the trade-offs, and what leading regions now require.