San Rafael, Calif.—A just-published new guide to organic grapegrowing, written by experts in the field, is one of the most comprehensive texts about viticulture written in the past 30 years, providing valuable data that will be useful even to conventional growers…(winesandvines.com)

Rain, cold and mold are threatening this year’s California wine harvest prompting one vintner to call in a helicopter to fight Mother Nature…(reuters.com)

Oregon appears to be on the brink of its worst wine grape harvest since the vineyard industry started a few decades ago…(dailyastorian.com)

Heavy rains caused most damage; N.Y. grapes in good shape; fermenting without electricity in Pennsylvania…(winesandvines.com)

Those who planted vegetable gardens and are now harvesting the fruits of their labor can take comfort that a couple new organic vodkas have also weighed in over the summer—just in time to squeeze the synthetic-chemical-free juice out of your ripe tomatoes and mix up an eco-friendly Bloody Mary…(www.cigaraficionado.com)