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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

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Sex and Garlic: New Weapons Against the Most Notorious Vineyard Diseases?

A Champagne vine expert and a Bordeaux lab have developed potential keys to winning winemakers' eternal war with powdery and downy mildews

• Collin Dreizen

Sep 25, 2020

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Kendall-Jackson and United Way Launch Fund for Grocery Workers

Jackson Family Wines chairman and proprietor Barbara Banke gave us details on the brand-new $2 million initiative to help frontline workers

• Collin Dreizen

Sep 24, 2020

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Black Eyed Peas, NFL Hall of Famers and More Boost Wine Charity Efforts

Barefoot Wines, Jackson Family Wines and others are making pushes to support kids' charities, COVID-impacted workers and wildfires victims

• Shawn Zylberberg
• Collin Dreizen
• Ben O'Donnell

Sep 23, 2020

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Sarah Jessica Parker, Graham Norton Take Up Home Winemaking on Zoom

SJP told us how she blended her signature Sauvignon Blanc via a virtual session with her winemaking partners in New Zealand; a video of the process earned an Honorable Mention in our 2020 Video Contest

• Shawn Zylberberg

Sep 21, 2020

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Taco Bell's 'Jalapeño Noir' Sells Out on Day Uno

Why does the fast-food chain have a house wine? "Democratizing wine and making it more available is what the wine industry should be doing more of"

• Shawn Zylberberg

Sep 17, 2020

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World of Wine, Secrets of Bubbles: Massive (and Modest) Museums Open in Porto and France

Portugal's "WOW" includes, count 'em, six museums devoted to wine, chocolate and cork, but don't sleep on labor-of-love collections elsewhere devoted to shipwreck Champagne, Roman amphorae and more

• Collin Dreizen

Sep 16, 2020

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Veuve Clicquot's New 2012s Grow Wild with Trippy Art Garb

The Champagne house has partnered with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama to create 100 hand-painted magnums of its La Grande Dame cuvée outfitted in psychedelic flower sculptures

• Shawn Zylberberg

Sep 15, 2020