Appellations are always changing - the well-known Russian River Valley was expanded by 14,000 acres this year - and federal regulators have approved seven appellations in the state since 2009, in ...

It was Thursday evening in Paso Robles, in California's Central Coast area, and much of the city's population gathered on the square to picnic, socialize and dance to the music of a honky-tonk ...

Mike Lucia owns an entire Northern California wine appellation. The owner of Rootdown Wine Cellars recently bought the 150-acre Cole Ranch Appellation for $2.7 million. The unique parcel of land ...

It's also arguably California's coolest new Pinot Noir appellation—literally and figuratively. Fifteen years ago, the Russian River Valley was the ne plus ultra of Pinot appellations.

In Sonoma, Gallo would like to extend the boundaries of the Russian River Valley appellation to include one of its vineyards, Two Rock, which is currently just outside the present border. But it might ...

One of the abiding mysteries of California wine is why more people don't know about—and therefore love—the Santa Cruz Mountains wine region. Yet right now it's producing some of the state's ...