Tag: Winery
What Boutique Wineries Also Brew Craft Beer: Your Guide to Dual-Production Destinations
The federal process requires wineries to demonstrate proper equipment separation or sanitation protocols between wine and beer production areas. State requ...
What Makes Boutique Wineries Worth Visiting for Wine Pairing Experiences?
Boutique wineries offer intimate, educational wine pairing experiences with direct winemaker interaction, limited production tastings, and personalized attention.
Westport Winery Wins Best of Class At West Coast Competition
2026 Update — New Ownership: Westport Winery Garden Resort is under new ownership as of December 10, 2025. After 17 years, founders Blain, Kim, and…
Sonoma seeks to honor Chinese laborers who shaped wine industry
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine History · California · 7 min read Walk into the wine caves at Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma today and you…
Near Sedona’s famed red rocks, a wine trail in Arizona
Most Sedona visitors leave without knowing that 30 minutes south, along a winding creek road through oak-studded high desert, is one of the most genuinely…
The Napa Valley Nobody Talks About
Napa Valley produces roughly 4% of California’s wine grapes and generates approximately 17% of the state’s wine revenue — and the reason for that disproportionate…
The Mondavi Family: How Robert’s Grandchildren Are Making the Best Wine Yet
No family has shaped American wine more profoundly than the Mondavis — and no family has suffered more publicly for it. Cesare Mondavi arrived from…
Boxed Wine Gets Serious: What’s Changed and What’s Worth Buying
The rehabilitation of boxed wine is complete. Tablas Creek — an acclaimed, certified organic estate in Paso Robles — put a portion of its Patelin…
Driftless Glen Distillery: How Wisconsin’s Ancient Geology Made a Great Bourbon
Fifteen thousand years ago, the glaciers that flattened most of the Midwest stopped just short of a corner of southwestern Wisconsin. The ice retreated, the…
Italian Biodynamic Wine: What the Best Producers Are Actually Doing
Biodynamic wine sits at the intersection of serious agriculture and genuine mysticism — which is either its most compelling feature or its most off-putting one,…
Three Ways Champagne Is Beating Its Climate-Change Problem
Champagne’s climate-change problem is simple to state and hard to solve: the region’s identity is built on cool temperatures, high acidity, and slow ripening. Rising…
Long Island Wine in 2026: How Cabernet Franc Finally Put the North Fork on the Map
In 2016, wine writer Lenn Thompson posed two questions about Long Island wine that he said might not be answered for decades: would the North…
Château de Beaucastel: Why This Is the Wine That Ends Drops of God
In the Japanese manga series Drops of God — and its 2023 Netflix adaptation — a young man must identify twelve legendary wines to claim…
San Diego’s Oldest Vineyard and Winery
CrushBrew Editorial · Wine Knowledge · 7 min read Nestled 25 miles north of downtown San Diego in Rancho Bernardo, Bernardo Winery is Southern California’s…