Many wineries conduct release parties to announce their new wines, but Lolonis Winery in Mendocino’s Redwood Valley recently had a different kind of release party.

The ultimate cult wine event, the Home Winemakers Classic is Saturday at St. Supery Winery in Rutherford.

Continuing the theme of Elizabethan-era branding, principals of the PlumpJack Group broke ground on a new wine venture last weekend they are calling Cade.

It's nearing a year since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but aid for victims of that disaster and Hurricane Rita, which followed a month later and hit the Louisiana-Texas coast, continues.