August 12, 2025 – A routine Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors meeting August 5 included a small agenda item that might have big consequences for the future of the Wineries of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA. The proposal to form a Wine Improvement District, covering the entirety of the defined AVA and all the …
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Bonus: Summer Reading and Wine Pairings from Book + Bottle’s Terra Dunham
BrewDog USA released its newest Headliner beer: BrewDog IPA. A piney, smooth and hoppy IPA is a tribute to the Chinook hops.
‘Move over Paris, London is now the wine capital of world’, declared a headline in The Times earlier this year. I was struck by the headline. First because of the obvious mistake that the Times’ sub-editors had failed to spot. Secondly, because I had just boarded the Eurostar to leave London, my home for more …
Though the once seemingly unstoppable rise of the hazy IPA has started to plateau in recent years, there’s no denying the style’s consistent mass appeal. But in such a saturated market of hazies, there are likely some dedicated craft beer aficionados who are tired of chasing down the next limited release or waiting in line …
There was a time when the Aviation was almost a ghost — a name in century-old bar manuals and faded photographs from the early days of the American cocktail. Its pale blue hue and perfumed aroma belonged to another era, and the drink vanished long before most of us ever sat at a bar. Then …
On Monday, The New York Times published an article exploring how different business owners across various industries are embracing AI. The piece opens with information on Sam McNulty, a Cleveland-based restaurateur who uses ChatGPT to build wine lists for his bars and restaurants. He plugs in a bunch of wine portfolio pamphlets from various distributors, …
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In the last week, the supply chain and logistics landscape saw pivotal developments across manufacturing, retail, automotive, and government sectors. GE Appliances announced a bold $3 billion investment to localize and automate its U.S. operations, while Toyota revealed plans to enter South Africa’s EV market with three new models, signaling a strategic expansion amid global …
Supply Chain and Logistics News August 11th – 14th 2025 Read More »
The wine industry has been having a tough old time for a couple of years, but the tide may be turning.
You don’t have to be an expert gambler to understand why it’s verboten to interrupt a craps player’s hot hand at the casino, nor a historian of America’s pastime to grasp why a baseball team won’t say a word to its pitcher if he’s got a perfect game going. When something is working, you let …