Wine

Having once enjoyed vibrant growth, China's wine industry is being held back by trade barriers, changing tastes and a flagging economy.

Between heat waves, droughts and wildfires, the grapes of California's wine region are suffering nature's wrath. Producers are trying to adapt.

The animals can work land that is inaccessible to tractors, and vineyard owners say they improve the soil for grapes. But they raise costs as well.

Sussex wineries receive a prestigious distinction, but a Kent winemaker dismisses the award as arbitrary, citing similar growing conditions.

Much of the boost has to do with wellness, but it also has to do with cost.

That could mean higher prices or outright shortages of booze for the holidays, the most lucrative time of the year for vinters and distillers.

Tariffs on wine, cheese, steel and aluminum are among the issues to be resolved.

Tariffs on European imports have been in place since October. More could be on the way.

E. & J. Gallo is buying roughly 30 inexpensive wine brands from Constellation Brands.

Rosé wine was long dismissed by wine buffs as cheap and cheerful. But the popularity of rosé is surging in the United States, where sales doubled in 2017. The biggest rosé region is in Provence, France. The French still tend to drink rosé in summer but a survey by United Kingdom-based consultancy Wine Intelligence says most […]