SacWineRegion

Like a glass of fine cabernet sauvignon, the first vintage of the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival went down smoothly, with minimal complaints about dusty conditions and traffic snarls. more ...

We're back from BottleRock Napa Valley, where the flavors of wine country mixed last week with a multiday music festival. more ...

The Sacramento region can't get enough to drink, and big-box beverage sellers are pouring it on. more ...

The Total Wine & More commercial that's all over the radio airwaves makes the small, independent wine shops sound hopelessly pretentious. We learn about a fictitious boutique shop called Wine Snobs that's overpriced, snooty, unhelpful and comes nowhere near to matching Total Wine & More's 8,000-bottle inventory. more ...

Calling all former members of the Sacramento Home Winemakers Club: An important anniversary celebration is coming up, and the group would like to see you and your wines. more ...

Sean Minor Wines, headquartered in Sacramento's Sierra Oaks neighborhood, recently received some news that the company's been ranked among the nation's best. The April issue of Wine & Spirits Magazine features its 24th annual poll of the favorite wines served in restaurants, and Sean Minor Wines earned two nods. more ...

The dreaded "D" word has the California wine industry on edge. We're talking about "drought," given that January and February were deemed the driest on record in the northern Sierra Nevada, the heart of water supplies for California farmers. more ...

The wine shipments going out of Lodi's Woodbridge Winery on Feb. 14 were a first of their kind. The 3,500 cases were off to Brazil, marking the debut of Lodi wines in this large South American country, which drinks relatively little wine. more ...

The news comes as buzzkill for the state's hobbyist winemakers: The California State Fair Home Wine Competition has been canceled for the second consecutive year, purportedly due to budget constraints and other factors. more ...

As Valentine's Day approaches, we've got some sweet news on the urban winery scene. Rail Bridge Cellars, which operates its tasting room in the Elks Tower penthouse, is on the verge of expanding to create a sister restaurant. Look for Rail Bridge Wine, Food and Fine Spirits to open in about three months on the ground floor of the Elks Tower (11th and J streets, downtown Sacramento). more ...