Washington has become a force in the wine industry. The state has the nation’s second-highest number of wineries, after California. But California, which has around 3,700 wineries, remains much bigger than anyone else in the United States, selling more than $40 billion worth of wine in this country.
Read moreA mother sued Chi Sigma Phi sorority and California State University Fullerton in Orange County Court, claiming her daughter died of alcohol poisoning from a sorority initiation.
Read moreA federal judge has dismissed opposing motions for summary judgment in a lawsuit against Napa County by vineyard owners who say the county’s law prohibiting helicopter takeoffs and landings on their property hurts their ability to spray their crops. The lawsuit will move to trial.
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The French government has quietly abandoned a campaign urging people to refrain from drinking alcohol in January, after winemakers pushed President Emmanuel Macron to drop a plan they say promotes “total abstinence.”
Read moreA California appeals court upheld the denial of Shia LaBeouf’s anti-SLAPP motion in a case relating to an altercation he had with a bartender who refused to serve the actor and his companion alcohol. LaBeouf called the bartender a “racist” and video footage of the incident was posted on the internet and broadcast on TMZ. The bartender sued for assault and slander.
Read moreA Swedish team has salvaged hundreds of bottles of liquor from the wreck of a ship sunk during World War I in the Baltic Sea.
Read moreIn a vast valley at the foot of the Andes, Antonio Sazo counts his goats, having ushered them down mountain slopes in the south of the Argentine province of Mendoza, where climate change forces them higher every year in order to graze.
Read moreA dozen bottles of fine French wine arrived at the space station Monday, not for the astronauts, but for science.
Read moreThe German government has acknowledged that it picked up the tab when the country’s spy agency recently took dozens of foreign agents on a trip to the Munich Oktoberfest.
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Classic Belgian beers, some of the most famous ales in the world, are fermented with rare, hybrid yeast species, according to a study published Monday in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
Read moreVineyard Investigations claims E&J Gallo Winery uses two of its patented irrigation technologies without permission, in federal court.
Read moreA dispute between two beer giants took an unexpected turn after Anheuser-Busch filed a counterclaim accusing a MillerCoors employee of stealing its recipes, brewing processes and other trade secrets using contacts and inside information gathered when he worked for Anheuser-Busch.
Read moreJohnny Depp’s lawyers describe the actor as upfront about his past substance abuse, a man with nothing to hide. That may be more true than ever after a Virginia judge ruled Friday that he must give his ex-wife’s attorneys access to medical records related to his alcohol and drug use.
Read moreFewer Russians picked up a bottle of alcohol during several time periods in the last 40 years and researchers say in a study published Wednesday this may have added up to an increase in life expectancy.
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Russia might still have a reputation as a nation of hard drinkers, but a report by the World Health Organization published Tuesday showed alcohol consumption has dropped by 43 percent since 2003.
Read moreKing County sheriff’s officer shot a teenager to death with eight bullets in a “recklessly supervised and unconstitutionally executed ‘sting’ operation to seize a different teenager,” suspected of selling alcohol to minors, the parents of the late MiChance Dunlap-Gittens say in federal court.
Read moreMaking wine in the Nordic countries is far from the glamour associated with Europe’s famed wine chateaux: here the sun is fickle, the season is short and diehard aficionados work up more sweat than wine but climate change is helping boost harvests.
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