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Byline: Peter Ward Ottawa -- I 'll never forget Warren Winiarski, who was recently featured on The Globe and Mail's obituaries page. I met this giant of the California wine [...]

Auguste Clape, a pillar of the northern Rhône Valley wine region whose sturdy yet remarkably soulful wines awakened interest in the little-known Cornas appellation, died on July 13 in Valence, [...]

On the day Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Sidney Haas was the 12th applicant (and, the family says, the first independent store owner) licensed by New York State to legally [...]

Virginia's wine community is celebrating the life and achievements of one of its giants, Dennis Horton, the maverick vintner who defied conventional wisdom by planting grapes few people had heard [...]

More than 100 years ago, Franco Biondi Santi's grandfather virtually invented Brunello di Montalcino, a Tuscan red wine that was little known until late in the 20th century. Since 1888, [...]

Alois Kracher Jr., a visionary winemaker whose luscious sweet wines and forceful personality were instrumental in restoring the Austrian wine industry's international reputation after a scandal in 1985, died Tuesday […]

Al Brounstein, a Napa Valley vintner who was an early proponent of both making wines from a single vineyard and charging sky-high prices for them, died on Monday at his […]

Brother Timothy Diener, who became a pioneering California vintner as the winemaker for Christian Brothers, died at the Christian Brothers Mont La Salle novitiate on Tuesday, his order announced. He […]