Many of us in the wine business are obsessed with wine scores. The prevailing 100-point scoring system, espoused by the Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Advocate and other respected publications is useful to winemakers, trade and consumers. True, some wine folks consider numerical scores difficult to apply to things that appeal to the senses; they argue how could one give point scores to something so complex such as a sunset, love or taste. Leave the numbers to batting averages. Point well taken.

Nord Coast Vineyard Services of Napa Valley has received a grant from the California Employment Training Panel to help train vineyard workers.

The newest step in the move to “green” farming could be the quietest so far.

Hoping to fire a shot heard around the world — or at least from coast to coast — a trio of Napans is targeting outdoorsmen with a new brand of affordable, easy-to-drink wine.

An old saying among wine marketing people of some American wine consumers goes like this: “Americans talk dry but drink sweet.” It’s not very nice, but it’s not entirely untrue, either.

In a review about a restaurant in Paris, a writer on Intelligent Travel, National Geographic’s blog, tells of “a clever little shortcut to getting around the mandated tax Parisian restaurants facewhen serving wine out of the slightly more traditional stemmed glass.” Wine is served in a baby bottle.