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Move Over, Cabernet: Napa Winery Tries Out New, Disease-Resistant Grapes

Rutherford’s Whitehall Lane planted Camminare Noir and Paseante Noir to deal with the threat of Pierce’s disease. But how’s the wine?

• Aaron Romano

Nov 3, 2020

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Jack Daniel’s v. Bad Spaniels: Trademark Battle Between Dog Toy Maker and Entire Bev Industry May Head to Supreme Court

The Tennessee whiskey has been locked in a yearslong legal dispute with a company that makes parody pet toys and that has managed to draw the ire of the world's leading wine, beer and spirits players in the process

• Collin Dreizen

Oct 30, 2020

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Elite Seattle Restaurant Canlis Transforms into 'Community College,' Offers Wine-and-Doritos Education

With its latest reinvention and an assist from Bill Gates, the Wine Spectator Grand Award winner is rethinking fine dining for these stay-at-home times

• Julie Harans

Oct 28, 2020

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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Franzia Costumes, Haunted Wineries Ring in Hallowine Season

The Vampire Slayer's Apothic adventure, ghostly winery tours, wine flights of fright, bedeviled beers, "scream cheese" and a different kind of adult costume will thrill and chill this Halloween

• Collin Dreizen
• Shawn Zylberberg

Oct 22, 2020

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Punctured Tanks to Pilfered Grapes, Global Wine Crimes and Blunders Run Rampant

A Frenchman tries a self-checkout scam with a classified-growth Bordeaux. A famed wine merchant falls prey to an elaborate heist. A wine distributor defrauds investors with a Shark Tank product. And on, and on

• Shawn Zylberberg

Oct 21, 2020

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What Do You Drink When You're the President? New Wine Book Tells All

From "Madeira Man" George Washington to JFK's obsession with James Bond–approved Champagne, Wine and the White House reveals 1600 Pennsylvania pours of lore, told by an author who was there

• Shawn Zylberberg

Oct 16, 2020

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Wineries and Chefs Gear Up Charity Efforts for California Wildfire Relief

Some provided on-the-ground aid to deliver meals amid the blazes, while others are coming up with creative fundraisers for victims with longer-term needs

• Ben O'Donnell
• Collin Dreizen
• Shawn Zylberberg

Oct 15, 2020

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Exclusive New Cabernets Pave the Way for 47-Mile Napa Vine Trail

The just-announced charity wine initiative will give Napa wine lovers a chance to invest in the popular biking and hiking path

• MaryAnn Worobiec

Oct 13, 2020

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War-Torn Wine, 'Worst' Champagne Harvest: Two Gripping New Wine Documentaries Debut

Wine and War and Wine Crush (Vas-y Coupe!), out this week, feature a harrowing journey into Lebanon's winemaking amid civil war, and the travails of a cult Champagne grower

• Shawn Zylberberg

Oct 8, 2020

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Squirrel Beer, Fish Whiskey, Poop Wine: 'Disgusting Food Museum' Opens Disgusting Drinks Exhibition

The curator of the now-infamous museum in Sweden told us what it was like to taste through the new collection of concoctions

• Suzanne Mustacich

Oct 6, 2020

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NBA's Moe Harkless Teams with The Prisoner Wine

The New York Knicks shooting guard is promoting racial justice in a debut wine partnership with Napa's The Prisoner Wine Company

• Shawn Zylberberg

Oct 1, 2020

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2,600-Year-Old Wine Press Discovered in Lebanon, but What Were They Drinking?

A very large, very old wine facility reveals some critical clues about the winemaking prowess of the ancient Phoenicians

• Suzanne Mustacich

Sep 30, 2020