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Wine Spectator: Wildfire In Napa Valley Prompts Evacuations And Threatens Vineyards

A fast-moving wildfire has been burning out of control in the hills near the town of Calistoga in northern Napa Valley since 3 p.m. on Aug. 21, ripping through parts of the same area the Glass Fire devastated in 2020. Continue reading →

Posted in News on August 25, 2025

Wine Spectator: Wildfire Update

Many of the tens of thousands of evacuated residents of Sonoma County got word that they could return home yesterday following the wildfires that have swept through the region. Continue reading →

Posted in News on October 31, 2019

Wine Spectator: Firefighters Battle Sonoma Blaze While Wineries Wonder And Worry

The Kincade wildfire in Sonoma has grown to more than 74,000 acres, according to Cal Fire officials, with 123 structures destroyed. Continue reading →

Posted in News on October 29, 2019

Wine Spectator: California Wine Country Braces For Another Fire Season

The skies are yet again tinged with smoke over Northern California. Continue reading →

Posted in News on August 6, 2018

Wine-Country Wildfire Recovery Benefit Raises Over $3.4 Million

Wine Spectator Grand Award–winning chefs and leading members of the Napa and Sonoma county wine community helped power a dinner and charity auction on the night of December 2 that raised more than $3.4 million to benefit recovery efforts in the wake of October’s devastating wildfires in California’s North Bay counties. Continue reading →

Posted in News on December 5, 2017

News Briefs for November 14, 2017

•Beam Suntory has launched Jim Beam Distiller’s Cut, an unfiltered 100-proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey. Continue reading →

Posted in News on November 14, 2017

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